music

2 oboes
2 clarinets 
2 horns
2 trumpets 
2 trombones
3 percussion
  1: marimba
  2: vibraphone
  3: marimba
2 pianos
strings

duration 7' 

SCORE

PROGRAM NOTE:
I typically write music with fairly involved programmatic intentions along with forms that echo or amplify them. However, I also enjoy music that simply unfolds a process or a ‘conceit’. Fabrication 12: Grapevine is a component part of a larger 32-movement cycle for various ensembles ranging from solos and duos to works for orchestra. These Fabrications explore more mechanical approaches to generating music. Each has a subtitle; a synonym of ‘fabrication’ which says something about the piece itself.

This is an attempt to apply the principals of John Conway’s early ‘cellular automaton’ experiment The Game of Life to sound. This version features versions that quickly splutter out. Fabrication 32: Manouevre features versions that lock into ever-repeating patterns. These, along with Fabrications 4: Device and Fabrication 9: Disposition share a cycle of crunchy cluster chords as their harmonic material as well as, with Fabrications 25: Carbon and Fabrication 26: Subterfuge a ubiquitous rising three-note figure

see also Fabrications