Wendy Reid - Tree Piece #65 "Lulu Variations 3" (2017)

Wendy Reid:
Tree Piece #65 “Lulu Variations 3” (2017)
Mills Performing Group
Emily Cardwell: voice/flute
Jiwon Choi: cello
Naomi Clay-Harrison: saxophone
Tony Gennaro: percussion
Eric Glick Rieman: melodica
Lee Hodel: bass
John Ivers: clarinet
Wendy Reid: violin
Matthew Robidoux: guitar
Mitch Stahlmann: flute
Jess Tambellini: trumpet
Maia Ziaee: piano
November 17, 2018
Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall
Mills College
Oakland, California
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Wendy Reid
Tree Piece #65 ‘Lulu Variations 3’
for Open Ensemble and African Grey Parrot
Tree Piece #65 ‘Lulu Variations 3’ is an environment in which live performers being bird and humans, interact with digital counterparts, attempting to create a sonically ambiguous landscape. The human performers play from a score of spatially notated timbral motives to be sounded within determined time frames. The bird ‘Lulu’ (both live, recorded) plays a dominant role as solo performer/improvisor, as well as co-composer in her creation of the score. The various musical elements move independently coming together from time to time as a result of the inherent similarities of their timbral natures. The unforced relationship which exists between them is characteristic of the Tree Pieces* as it exemplifies the inter-connection of all things in nature.
This work is part of Reid’s Tree Pieces*, an on-going set of musical processes which attempt to reflect nature’s manner of operations. The processes are contextual in nature thus allowing the performers to act according to the unpredictable conditions and variables which arise from within the musical continuity. In this way, the compositions (as mentioned in Tree Piece #65 ‘Lulu Variations 3’) attempt to reflect the inter-connection of all things (including ourselves) in nature. In performance, an attempt is made at a spontaneous unforced and unblocked growing of sound and
silence in which emphasis is placed on formation rather than pre-established form , as in the building and shaping of cell-like units in living processes.
MANY THANKS TO STEED COWART AND THE MILLS PERFORMING GROUP!
-Wendy Reid

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