For Fixed Media (Stereo, Quadraphonic, or 5.1 surround)
Performances
- New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), New York, NY June 2026
- SEAMUS conference, Houston, TX, May 20-23 2026 (5.1 surround version)
- Emruz Festival, New York, NY, April 25 2026 (stereo version)
- International ElectroAcoustic Music Festival—Brooklyn College—Topfer Recital Hall in the Tow Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY March 15 2026 (stereo version)
- Electronic Nights No. 7—Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX March 4 2026 (quadraphonic version)
Preview on Soundcloud
Program Notes
A qanun, a middle-eastern zither, serves as the main sound source for this piece. The instrument is time-stretched, reversed, fragmented, and reshaped through layered processing. The recording retains much of the instrument’s original tuning, including its microtonal inflections, which are further refracted through transformation.
From this material, a mensuration canon emerges. The result is a shifting, spatial texture where repetition fractures and refolds across the field. Like many of my pieces, it reflects how memory often resists sequential recall, how recollection can loop, collide, or fold in on itself even when lived experience moves forward. The form follows that logic.
Can a Canaanite put a qanun in a canon? took shape in part during a residency at MacDowell. I am sincerely grateful to MacDowell for the gift of time, space, and an artistic environment that profoundly shaped this work.