Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award (2011)
commissioned by the Detour New Music Ensemble
Assembly Lines
chamber orchestra
1(=picc).1.1.1.-1.0.1.0.-perc.(1)-pno.-strings 1.1.1.1.1., 6′30″
54 pages, 11×14 inches
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Premiered by the University of Texas at Austin New Music Ensemble on February 15, 2011
in Bates Recital Hall, Austin, TX
Program Note:
Assembly Lines was commissioned by the Detour New Music Ensemble. The work can be optionally accompanied by live video projections of factory footage from the Prelinger Archives. After a brief, yet clangorous fanfare, a solo bassoon unveils the work’s “conveyor belt” theme. Not unlike Ford’s automobile assembly line, the ensemble appends this tune with a series of interchangeable motifs, which hammer and thrash the musical texture in an intricate web of syncopation and orchestral color. The Model T is born.
