Concert Music
in it & out of
instrumentation:
Soprano, Trombone, Piano, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Live Electronics (1 performer)
commission info:
"in it & out of" was comissioned by the 2018 Nief-Norf summer festival, and was premiered on July 22nd, 2018, during Sebastian's composer fellowship with the festival in Knoxville, TN.
program note:
"in it & out of" is a work based on text from Yaz Lancaster's poem "clocks". The text makes observations about various phenomena in the natural world, and the ways in which our relationships to them are influenced by the passage of time. Similarly, "in it & out of" is built primarily of four consecutive miniatures, one for each of the phenomena described in the text. The entire sequence miniatures is bookended by flash-forward and flash-back versions of itself, contextualizing each texture and its handling of the passage of time with that of the others, realizing the text’s observation of phenomena moving “in” and “out” of time.
text:
clocks
the sky broken by
the moon in the afternoon
an early lantern
it goes [un]noticed
the love of weeds cleaved from earth
that grow back & back
again the silence
that fills spaces between then
& now & with/out
time cannot bend back
or [un]turn grapes into wine
no fires [un]stolen
somewhere lava: a field [un]raveling
its green [un]dressed suddenly & [re]turned
slowly things settled & [un]settled by time:
in it & out of
- Yaz Lancaster