smear'd was written for the ensemble "wild Up" as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2015 National Composer's Intensive.

this thing also won the 2016 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award,, woo!

this is where:
i'm supposed to define smeared, and reveal why there's no "e";
and tell you things to listen for...

but for me::
this piece was a recurrent dream,, and i couldn't make sense of it;;
even when i woke up.....

smear'd (2015)

From that moment as a child when you first found a memory, the lifelong journey through memory began. We spend one part of our lives living in recollections, the other part making those for the future. Travelling back through our own time, though, is not simple. We are not indexed chronicles, but rather complied fragments of haphazardly chosen moments. Linearity is lost in favor of randomness. Specificity of time and place loses to generality, disintegrates until only feeling is remembered.

This piece progresses through remembrance of its own past, an attempt to make something coherent from the wayward thoughts, those we call upon, those we bury.


Memory Fragments (Wir Sind noch nicht zu Spaet)

Nigel Deane - violin
Andrew McIntosh - viola
Tal Katz - cello
Armando Wood - bass
Daniel Lemer - flute
Yiqing Chen - oboe
Tate Shoebridge - oboe

Chaconne

Daniel Lemer

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