In 2014, Duo Verico (Sam Lorber and Becki Simon) commissioned me to write an 8 minute piece for flute and alto saxophone to be performed at the Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium in January 2015. They just finished editing a video of a new recording of the piece, which can be viewed above. The piece was an interesting challenge for me, as I’m a very chordal musical thinker – writing for 2 monophonic instruments was a bit outside my wheelhouse, even moreso with a deadline, but it was fun to take on. I did a bunch of nonsense involving 9-tone serialization of Messiaen’s 3rd mode of limited transposition. I hope you enjoy listening to it! You can also listen to the piece on Soundcloud.

In other news, I moved to Baltimore, which is the reason for the long silence.