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commissioned by: JACK Quartet
premiere: November 2017
length: 15 minutes
date: October 2017
instrumentation: string quartet and electronics
program note: Inward is the middle work of a trilogy of pieces for string quartet and electronics. Contrasting "Undone", the first piece in the set, which musically speaks to my despair over recent political developments, I have here intentionally turned inward and attempted to block out the world around me, taking solace in pure sound. The piece deploys digital signal processing to enrich the sound of the instruments in various ways and to distribute the sound among eight speakers that encircle the audience to create a more immersive and expansive soundscape. Inward was written for and is dedicated to the JACK Quartet, in recognition of their inspiring musicality and adventurous artistic vision.