DESCRIPTION:
Performed by line upon line percussion.

ABOUT THE PIECE:

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- Camera as storage (It will let me see later)
- Camera as prosthetics (It lets me see what I can't)
- Camera as simulation (It will let me remember later what I can't see now)

- V. Acconci

For Percussion Trio
Andrew Greenwald (2014)

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ABOUT LINE UPON LINE:
line upon line percussion seeks new ways for percussion instruments to advance contemporary art music by performing newly commissioned works alongside existent masterpieces, for adventurous and curious listeners. To date, the Austin-based trio has commissioned and premiered thirteen new works, four of which appear on their full-length, self-titled album. The group’s in-house creative project, seeing times are not hidden, won top prize at the 2011 Music in Architecture-Architecture in Music Symposium at the University of Texas at Austin. The work involves over 1000 glass, metal and hardwood chimes suspended from the three arches of Waller Creek Bridge. In April 2013, line upon line gave the North American premiere of Hugues Dufourt’s massive evening-length masterpiece, Erewhon, which enlists the use of nearly 150 percussion instruments. The group’s self-presented concert series, now in its third year, was recently listed as one of the Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2014 by the Austin Chronicle. Its 2015-2016 opener, soft, received an honorable mention in the most recent version of the award.


ABOUT THE COMPOSER:

Andrew Greenwald (born Queens N.Y) is an American composer whose current work engages with issues of pixelated sound material viewed at increasing resolutions, rational formal containers for that material, and didactic indexing of those containers to form a perceived whole/hole. His work have been commissioned or independently programmed by Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Arditti Quartet, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Spektral Quartet, Ensemble Adapter, On Structure, Ensemble Dal Niente, Line Upon Line Percussion, Seth Josel, Ryan Muncy, and Severine Ballon at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He has been an active member of Ensemble Pamplemousse since 2002 and is the current acting artistic co-director. Andrew's compositions have received support from the Hepner Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund, Argosy Foundation, the American Music Center Composer Assistance Program, NYSCA, A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'Connor Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund, and Meet the Composer. He pursued graduate studies in composition/experimental music at Wesleyan University under the supervision of advisor Alvin Lucier, and is currently the David R. Coelho graduate fellow at Stanford University where he is a doctoral candidate in composition (Abd((Dissertation Advisors: Brian Ferneyhough and Jonathan Berger)).