Details:

Duration: 8 mins
Instrumentation: symphony band and 2 channel fixed media
Premiere: April 24, 2018 by Curtis Glidewell and the Central Dauphin East High School Wind Ensemble at the Central Dauphin East High School in Harrisburg, PA.
Commission Info: Commissioned by Central Dauphin, Matt Carraher, Central Dauphin East Schools, Curtis Glidewell, and Composers and Schools in Concert.

Program Notes:

For most of my adult life I've traveled and lived in many disparate, distance places: a commune in New Orleans, an underground apartment in New York City, a hostel in Ireland and a house in Guyana. This has been a blessing in that I have many people I love, spread out all around the world. It has also been a curse in that I often find myself caught in between these different, disparate worlds. I live most of my life in the space that separates. 

When working on in the space that separates, I kept thinking about the phrase 'in between'. The source material for the electronics, static I recorded from an old radio, is what you hear when you are in between the radio stations where you are 'supposed' to be. I wrote this piece just after returning to the United States after living abroad for two years and was living at my parent's house while I searched for work. I was very much in an 'in between' moment in my life, trying to find beauty in the space that separates.

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