JH24-2 Aughrim 21-08-1972

As in numerous other political, cultural, and social situations, Turkish Republic’s Westernization program had crucial effects on its musical culture. The ‘polyphonization’ of the then monophonic/heterophonic Turkish music was seen as the way-out from its ‘backward’ origins to its integration to the global musical culture – a modern sound that refers to its roots. 

The title of my piece böcekçe (literally ‘insect language’) is a reference to the 1943 orchestral composition by the Turkish composer Ulvi Cemal Erkin. Erkin’s piece Köçekçe is a dance rhapsody which makes use of numerous folk songs, harmonized and orchestrated in Western tradition. In a way, this is a paradigmatic moment in defining the destiny of a composer in this geography: to think about the technique of the west and the material of one’s own ‘blood’.

My piece is a series of attempts at harmonizing, serializing and deconstructing (all Western techniques) of a made-up melody, trying to put the solution of fusion of cultural elements into question at every moment. 



böcekçe (insect polyphony)

Musicians of the Wellesley Composers Conference. James Baker, conductor. Live performance, 7/23/16.

Snowlight Sketch for sinfonietta (2016)

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Hannah Lash, Filigree In Textile (movement 1)

This piece was inspired by the craft of needlepoint, in which different-colored yarns are stitched onto a stiff canvas to produce a pattern or image. What inspires me about this art form are the contrasts it contains: between the flexible strands of yarn and the rigid canvas and between the small complex patterns that combine to form larger shapes and images. Throughout the work, small melodic threads are stitched onto a slowly-evolving harmonic grid. Dynamic swells produce rapid changes between the foreground and background, while stark tempo changes create a sense of ebb and flow as the music sometimes surges forward and sometimes seems to be held back against its will.  Essentially, this piece stems from my love for orchestral performance and from the sonic complexity that emerges when a multitude of small sounds come together to form a coherent musical whole.

Recorded by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Cliff Colnot, conductor.

Needlepoint--for orchestra

Piece no. 3 from the Piece-a-day project at the Tanglewood Music Center.
Flute: Johanna Gruskin
Clarinet: Matthew Griffiths

2019-08-17 0230PM CD1

Figment III: Waltz

Written for PinkNoise
Roberta Michel (flute); Eric Umble (clarinet); Johnna Wu (violin); Isse Herr (cello) Han Chen (piano)
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I am fascinated by the physical and psychoacoustic properties of sound. duality ii is one of several pieces I've been working on lately that specifically concern the rhythm-pitch duality; that is, a pitch, when slowed down enough, becomes a rhythm, and a rhythm, when sped up fast enough, becomes a pitch. This physical principle is literally presented and symbolically represented throughout the piece by means of shaping sounds in ways that may reveal their physical phenomena and make them perceptible. However, the goal is not to know exactly the processes underpinning the music; rather, the goal is to feel the overall physicality of the sound itself.

Duality ii - ensemble and electronics

South African House, meet the Queen of Soul.

Needlepoint--for orchestra

Jack Hughes

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