The world has become a fracturing land. A land of desolate plains and jagged mountains. A land of bottomless fissures and blazing skies. A land of anxiety and boredom and broken resolutions. A land where life and reason cling to existence, screaming defiantly in the face of an overwhelming darkness.
"Into this Fracturing Land" (2020) musically invokes this dystopian world as a summary of many of my thoughts and experiences over the last year and half. What does it mean to fail? What does it mean to collapse? Can we undo the fracturing that has been set in motion?

Into this Fracturing Land utilized a tuning system in which the octave is divided into 31 equal steps, instead of the 12 steps used in most modern Western music.

Composed, performed, recorded, and mastered by Nicholas Denton Protsack. Album artwork created using "Artbreeder" AI neural network image processor.

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Into this Fracturing Land

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An ongoing aspiration of BMI Award-winning composer and cellist, Nicholas Denton Protsack, is to seek new connections between music and the natural world. Called a "(composer) to keep a close eye on" by the Canadian Music Centre, Nicholas' ecologically informed music includes composed works, studio albums, and experimental improvisations, and has been featured in a wide variety of concert settings across North America, Europe, and New Zealand. Recent accomplishments include two first prizes in the 2021 SOCAN Foundation Young Composers Awards and commissioned works for the Toronto Summer Music Festival and the American Prize-winning Ensemble for These Times (E4TT).

	As a cellist, Nicholas is an active freelance performer and advocate of new music—frequently involved in collaborative projects that range from traditional to highly experimental concert idioms. Although primarily a chamber musician, he has also appeared as a soloist with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra.

	Nicholas is currently undertaking a PhD in music at Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), studying with composers Michael Norris and Dugal McKinnon. His other major teachers have included David Garner (composition), Jean-Michel Fonteneau (cello), Jennifer Culp (cello), and Morna Howie (cello).

Since 1969, I have been playing music as a semi-professional reeds player in England and France.
I am a self taught composer and arranger, writing principally for various small instrumental groups, both classical and jazz. Find out more at : https://tmalcock.wixsite.com/mysite .