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Fabrication 8: Semblance
2008

string trio
 or
string trio
violin sextet

duration 25'

first performance:
Gen Takeuchi, Chihiro Tai, Kei Yamazawa
Sunny Salon Concert Hall Nippori, Tokyo / August 17, 2012

SCORE
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
Movement 4
Movement 5

About Fabrications:
Often I write music with fairly complicated programmatic intentions along with forms that echo or amplify them. However, I also enjoy music that simply unfolds a process or a ‘conceit’. Fabrication 8a: Semblance 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.

PROGRAM NOTE 
Fabrication 8: Semblance grew out of a commission to accompany a dance. While waiting for my score to be ready the choreographer was beginning to create the dance in the studio while listening to Bach's Cello Suites. By the time the first three movements of my work were completed, the Bach had become the dance's music proper, and my score was unneeded. Each of the five movements is a freely reimagined half-memory of various moments from the Cello Suites. Movements 1, 3, and 4 tend to the stately, while 2 and 5 are moto perpetuos.