splinter (2017)
Double Bass and Vibraphone
Duration: 4.5’
Premiered by JC Clancy (Vibraphone) and Patrick Fowler (Bass) May 2017 at University of Maryland, College Park.
program note
Splinter begins from a point of rhythmic unison and quickly frays at the ends, where both the bass and vibraphone each occupy their own rhythmic domains, occasionally overlapping. Splinter gets its name from the rhythmic transformations that occur throughout this short piece, which I like to think as a series of gradual fragmentations and breaking-off points.