inti figgis

recorded by the RTE Contempo Quartet, 07/18

note | 'love reacts only' combines shared materials and trajectories with spontaneous player cues to create complex group gestures, textures, and timbral interactions.

love reacts only | ConTempo Quartet

‘recorded stories about growing up and existing as women and queer people of color while making tea. Also featuring transducers, detuned mandolins, djembe, a two-tone kettle, and a string quartet.’

premiered by PUBLIQuartet at the New Latin Wave Festival, curated by Angélica Negrón.

Tea en mi casa | PUBLIQuartet

performed by the Cadenza Collective @ Walters Art Museum Sculpture Gallery, Baltimore MD as part of a partnership with Peabody Institute of Music of the Johns Hopkins University

older blood [2018] | Peabody Cadenza Collective

for and recorded by Gleb Kanasevich, Bronx NYC

'no words' is a reflection on different forms of police violence and navigating spaces as a queer person of color. The score incorporates visual and poetic elements to inform choices of pedals, patches, and/or other types of electronics as well as local & structural interpretation.

no words | gleb kanasevich

premiered by the National Sawdust Ensemble @ National Sawdust on June 4th, 2019- as one of the winners of their 2019 Hildegard Competition.

Lidiya Yankovskaya, Conductor
Allison Loggins-Hull, flute
Oran Etkin, clarinet
Sugar Vendil, piano
Ian Rosenbaum, percussion
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello

Charles Hagaman, NS Technician

Openwork, knotted object // Trellis in bloom // lightning ache [2019] | National Sawdust Ensemble

note| Primavera crown is an encounter between conflicting ethics of my work — the role of individual imagination and expressive possibility against the large canvas of chamber orchestra. The work brings into conversation aesthetic materials across different contemporary classical practices and places them within a liberatory framework, drawn from the socioeconomic realities of racialized spaces. Do these materials have the capacity to grow beyond their dominant origins?

The result opens a space for confrontation: on the one hand, its expressive sonic spaces and trajectories profoundly engage my imagination; on the other I struggle, from a philosophical perspective, with the mechanisms and aesthetics I’m invoking and their connotations. 

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premiered by Alarm Will Sound on July 27th, 2019 @ The Missouri Theatre during the Mizzou International Composer's Festival

flower by Ella Joklik

20190727B - 8 World Premieres

Primavera crown [2019] | Alarm Will Sound

for 3 percussionists - <2x woodblock, 3x flower pot, 2x non-resonating metal, 2x resonating metal, 3x glass bottle>/player

-this piece channels creation myths-

performed by the Mizzou Percussion Department @ Mizzou International Composer's Festival 2019 - Megan Arns, Hannah Hutchins, and Brianna Trainor

photo by Dale Lloyd

To give you form and breath [2019] | Mizzou Percussion

written for & premiered by Spektral Quartet at the Taproot New Music Festival @ UC Davis | 01.31.2020

Talamh (land) comes from old Irish and is one of the three fundamental spaces of their cosmology: nem-talamh-muir : the sky, the earth, the sea. This work explores distinct and connected sonic landscapes, using structure and ensemble interactivity to foreground individual choices in pitch, registration, and timbre. It’s a way for me to connect to home and recall many of the rich and magical mountains, streams, and forests I walked through with my papa, Peter, in Ireland since very young.

Talamh (land) [2020]| Spektral Quartet

'Form the Fabric' derives from NMAI archaeologist Ramiro Mato's phrase describing the cosmological understandings of the Incan & Andean peoples through description of the Inca Road as 'threads interwoven to form the fabric of the physical and spiritual world.

commissioned by Crash Ensemble and New Music Dublin with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland 2020

premiered by Crash Ensemble during New Music Dublin 2020 @ The National Concert Hall, Dublin Ireland

inti figgis

Bill Ritchie