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Performed at my senior recital on April 3, 2016. Performed by myself (Soprano), Emily Nyberg (Soprano II), Tim O'Grady (Linnstrument), Luke Simonson (fixed media), and Sophia Tzougros (fixed media recitation). Text by Anna Chotlos. Program notes: 

Constellations is an expansion of a CURI project I participated in this summer. In helping to create a laptop orchestra or all-electronic ensemble within the music department, I wrote In Silver, which centers around a fixed media drone created in Logic Pro X. Striving to add a more natural element to the ensemble, I added vocals that are altered in real-time with reverberation and echo through a Logic-connected microphone. The final (and, arguably, the most intriguing) electronic element is a LinnStrument, an alternative to a standard MIDI controller. Like a controller, the LinnStrument sends messages over MIDI or USB jacks instead of generating sound. Unlike a controller, however, the instrument is touch-sensitive, capable of varying loudness, pitch and timbre. This results in a sound that is surprisingly human as well as electronic.     

Although In Silver was originally meant as a standalone piece, I found that I wanted it to be part of a larger story. To find additional text to complement the prose, I had the pleasure of working with English major and poet Anna Chotlos ‘16. The poet describes the collection’s theme as a “continuous conversation between ‘I’ and ‘You.’” I highlighted this theme by adding a second vocalist to the ensemble and working with the interplay between the two voices. The song cycle is not a linear storyline so much as a compilation contemplating love, loss, and the connection (or disconnection) between two people. 

Many of the movements feature improvisation, either from the vocalists or from the Linnstrument. To balance the freer form of singing, many of the fixed media elements are grounded in found sounds such as static (created in Logic Pro X and chucK), rain, and pre-recorded voices. Movement III is the most prominent example of this--it features a reading by Theatre Performance Major Sophia Tzougros. The piece ends as it begins, fading into static, suggesting that this collection of thoughts and voices is a transmission that will remain suspended in the composer’s (and listener’s) subconscious. 


"Interstate"

No snow yet
but Christmas lights
make halos around dark houses.

Driving home here is like
finding your way downstairs
at night, for a glass of water

without turning on 
the lights, or the way you
cup a hand behind a candle

as you blow it out.

"Constellations"

I am constellations and you are the shortcut through the cemetery.
I am red oak leaves and you are smiling with your eyes.
I am deer bones and you are pale pink peonies pinched with dew.
I am vast and you are sailing a ship in a thimble.
I am a cup of tea and you are a princely ransom.
I am onion tears and you are an uninhibited laugh.
I am inclement weather and you are constellations.

-Anna Chotlos

"In Silver"

And through the trees, and through the leaves, two figures walked side by side. In the silver light, in the distant night, they did not look at each other. Far-off birdsong, the moon shining bright, the air electric now, she knew he was leaving. And they walked. Suddenly, she turned back, and he was gone. I woke that night to light streaming through the floor.

-Haley Olson

"The Kraken"

At this depth, everything is the same color black
Rain’s sawing hole through our roof made of water
and I still don’t want to talk to anyone but you

We are too big for little things but too big for anything to be little

In cities of houses of ships filled with sand
I’m listening behind the closed lips of doors
Are you dreaming? Now the aphelion, only closer remains

We are too big for little things but too big for anything to be little

Time is not a love story.
Love is not a time machine.

We are too big for little things but too big for anything to be little. 

-Anna Chotlos


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