Into Its Own Shadow (2010)

Details

• Duration (min): 20
• Instrumentation: flutes (fl., a.fl., b.fl.), bass clarinet, piano and digital audio

Score Excerpts

• Score Excerpt 1

Program Notes

The first draft of Into Its Own Shadow was written during February and March of 2008, when I was an invited artist at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras in Morelia. The work was completed in Canada in May, and revised slightly in 2010. The title of the work comes from a poem by Theodor Roethke, The Far Field:

The river turns on itself,
The tree retreats into its own shadow.
I feel a weightless change, a moving forward

Into Its Own Shadow is dedicated to Ensamble 3:

Salvador Torre, Fernando Dominguez and Mauricio Nader.

Commissioned by the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic
Arts for Ensamble 3.

First performance: June 29, 2012,
Morelia, Mexico.

Other performances: July 13, 2012,
Mexico City.