body_scapes, N°2 | Creating Calm
For Solo Laptop Performer
Commissioned by Kyle Grimm
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The inspiration for body_scapes comes from practicing meditation and noticing the various sounds and hums that would arise during deep breathing. Using a stethoscope microphone placed over the heart and a contact microphone on the neck, I recorded multiple mediations, breathing exercises, and vocal improvisations as the basis for my pool of samples that would then inform the direction of each composition
Creating Calm plays with the notion of anger and other heightened emotions. The piece explores when it is right to accept those feelings and move on and when it is right to lean into them.
Performance History:
Daniel Martin Minogue, The Free Center, Hartford, CT, 3/4/22