#music: phantasm - submersion

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Giant Intergalactic ✨ bath bomb by Lush

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Listen to Emma Resmini and Héloïse Carlean-Jones’s premiere of my flute+harp duo Abyss Lustre at the @curtisinstitute. They’re excellent performers, both technically and musically in understanding how to make the music speak.

I. Evocation II. Phantasm III. Submersion

Program notes: Abyss Lustre, composed for Emma Resmini and Héloïse Carlean-Jones, begins with Evocation, with winding lines emerging from caliginous murmurings, and with a lyrical melody forming and fraying amidst a stark landscape. Phantasm swirls, flickers, and pulses, developing a four-note motive along with the winding figures from the first movement, and a memory of its melody. The motion grows increasingly turbulent until it reaches the thunderous climax that begins Submersion. From this zenith, the lyrical melody descends, sinking ever deeper until it returns to the void whence it emerged.

A perusal score is here.

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Giant Intergalactic 🪐