Shimmer
Work Overview
Instrumentation: solo percussion
Commission: Ensemble For These Times as part of E4TT’s concert, “Dark Universe/ Mysterious Spaces.” Funding from The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and supported in parts by grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the California Arts Council, a state agency.
Premiere: April 9, 2022, E4TT performance by Hyunjung Julie Choi, percussion.
Duration: approx. 3 minutes
Program Note
Composed for one percussionist, "Shimmer" explores the beauty of found objects: the instrumentation simply says “four very high resonant porcelain or metal objects and three very low metal or glass objects,” giving the percussionist the liberty to experiment and play. The very high shimmers, played almost like an improvisation, are contrasted with the stability of a regular drone from the low notes.
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