Skirt

fl/picc, cl/bass cl, vn, va, vcl, pno, perc [14:05] 1992.

Commission: Bang on a Can Festival
Premiere: Present Music, New York, May 1992
Recording: Dinosaur Annex, Boston, October, 1993

Program note:

Fragmentary recollections of beginnings…
Miro’s Ladder of Escape: opaque clouds of colour shift enigmatically, lines moving in the foreground with muscular vigour.
Brooklyn: walking down my street, summertime, big American cars pulse by me with big stereo sounds. Metal muscle.
Travels in Hyperreality: Umberto Eco writes about the transforming effect of wearing jeans on one’s consciousness.
Skirt: the edge of things, it is what it does, a feisty/frilly word.