Assembly/Delivery is a 3-minute piece for Chamber Orchestra that I wrote and produced in June of 2019. My first foray into writing for chamber orchestra, I found the prospect daunting at first, but I knew the piece would revolve around marimba, which I used as my way into the piece. I loaded up a marimba sample and started to improv on my keyboard. The central Marimba line came out very quickly, though it required extensive cleaning and culling to make it a more cohesive and organized line. Next up, when I felt I’d exhausted that idea, was the trumpet line in the second “section”. I don’t feel that writing melody is my strength (yet…) and I’m far more apt to write extended chordal progressions (see: the first half of the piece) but I wanted to have a solo trumpet melody in the piece and I didn’t know that it would fit over the marimba line. Once the framework was in place, I began to flesh out ideas, writing counter-lines and adding harmonic support, primarily with woodwinds in the first section and leaning heavily on the trombones and horns in the second part.

Assembly/Delivery

(they/them) LA/NY-based artist, composer, and technologist.

Assembly/Delivery

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