Description
programm note
DRIFT MATTER posits a sound terrain upon which incomplete hunks of aural matter are unceremoniously strewn, interrupting, obfuscating and erraticizing each other. The various sound worlds are always impinging upon one another and are refracted through each other; the “musical object” is always only partially revealed. Both formal sections and overall impact of certain strands of material are wildly unbalanced, some acting as cumbersome eclipsing objects of others.
The working metaphor throughout DRIFT MATTER is that of glacial drift, which describes all types of geological material which is uprooted, transported and deposited by glacial activity, regardless of size or amount of sorting. This includes glacial erratic [massive rocks displaced into and thus imposing upon a region/terrain in which they are not indigenous], moraine [smaller bits of rock and earth, sheered off of a mass by the advancement of a glacier, which then cover and recontextualize their own, indigenous terrain], and sediment [particulate matter which is accumulated along with a glacier until it is somehow freed and transported into a body of water, within which is may solidify and densify into a new, rock-like strata of the earth itself]. The piece renders its material as both unwieldy supraglacial matter and consolidated, ground[ed] proglacial debris.
