DESCRIPTION:
Performed by Wild Rumpus
Bethanne Walker - flute, Sophie Huet - bass clarinet, David Waugh - bari saxophone, Weston Olencki - trombone, Mckenzie Camp - percussion, Margaret Halbig - piano, Dan VanHassel - electric guitar, Vanessa Langer - soprano, Mia Nardi-Huffman - violin, Joanne de Mars - cello, Eugene Theriault - contrabass
http://wildrumpusmusic.org/

Composed by Nick Vasallo
http://nickvasallo.com/

Video recording by Taylor Joshua Rankin
http://www.taylorjoshua-rankin.squarespace.com/
Audio recording by Zach Miley
http://www.zachmiley.com/
Recorded at Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland, CA on May 8, 2015

http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/in-the-darkness-the-glowing-sound-of-a-wild-rumpus/

PROGRAM NOTES
Composed from February 22nd-March 18th 2015 using an Excel spreadsheet. There are no measures, downbeats, or barlines. The structure isn’t delegated by melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic elements. Just absolute time. I am constantly searching for different ways of saying what I want to say.

the title for thiS piece is taken and modified from a line in a movie.
I wanted to write something that sounded pulsating with energY;
eterNal and evolving.
the universE doesn't draw in straight lines.
I am beginning to not feel the organicism in neatly oRganized
teleoloGical music.
I want to communicate with our primal side psychoacousticallY.