The material in Shiverer is designed not in terms of notes and rhythms, but rather of irreducible relationships between the instruments, each with an attendant sound-profile (unison and resonance, heterophony and friction, hocket and echo...). As most of the difficulties in the piece are not individual, but rather the result of complexities of coordination, the piece becomes a kind of etude in joint concentration, a series of technical, mental, and spiritual 'gates' which the players have to pass through together.Shiverer is dedicated to Erin Lesser.
instrumentation: flute, piano
duration: 7'
date: 2007
recording:
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full score
performance history:
5.23.10- Wet Ink Ensemble, Roger Smith Hotel, NYC
4.15.10- Wet Ink Ensemble, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
4.25.09- I.C.E., Symphony Space, NYC
5.3.08- Wet Ink Ensemble, St. Peter's Church, NYC
7.13.07- Manabe/Moriyama Duo, MUSICASA, Tokyo, JP