4 poems of e.e.cummings.
A performance given on 4 December 1972 at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music by Pat Griffen, soprano, Dodie Layton, flute, and Alan Beard, percussion.

Sonata for female voice, flute & percussion

Harrex - Canzone

Harrex - Rhythm Of Black Lines - Brake Drum Assembly

University of Sussex 21st Century Ensemble, conducted by Ben Oliver

Harrex - Towards Equilibrium

Harrex  ... a glimpse of a white bird ...

Harrex - Colloquy

Harrex - untitled 2016.1 (version for string quintet)

Untitled 2016.3 for piano and small orchestra

...dreams, shadows, and smoke

The form of the work is simple: a single movement, lasting about 33 minutes and always very quiet (ppp and muted), during which there is a very gradual, almost imperceptible, transition from isolated sounds (or silences punctuated by short sounds) to sustained/ continuous sounds and a feeling of increasing intensity.

For the listener the experience might be compared to watching a painter complete a picture. The painter starts by adding only small amounts of colour but over time the whole canvas is filled. Perhaps this description also has something to do with my fascination (almost an obsession) with how to achieve in music something of the experience of looking at visual art – seeing the whole work laid out and being able to take it in at a single glance.

String Quartet No. 2

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