Composition date: 2013
Instrumentation: cello with surround-sound electronics
Length: 14 minutes
Premiere:
Date: December 2014
Venue: Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University
Performers: Ninfea Crutwell-Reade, Andres Villalta
Piece Description:
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds. — Leonardo da Vinci
