Space:Time String Quartet #2 (2014)
This work exists in two versions. The String Quartet and Guitar version (2018) can be found below.

This work is a Fromm Foundation Commission, written in 2014 for the MIVOS String Quartet

In four movements - 16 minutes
I. Claustrophobia
II. Gravity
III. Space Travel
IV. Coda “Into the Light”

String Quartet version- 2014
Premiered May 23, 2015 DiMenna Center, NY

Commercial recording available from New Focus Recordings.

Program Notes:

I find the physical barriers of space travel fascinating.  For this new string quartet my speculative interest focused on three notions of the physical.  Drawing parallels to Newton’s three laws of motion, point, velocity and acceleration, Space:Time has three layers of intensifying activity in musical sounds. 

The first movement, claustrophobia, captures a metrically rigid yet evolving musical landscape, starting in the upper stratosphere and capturing specific points in time.  The second movement, gravity, gently bounces two pitches in counterpoint across all registers.  And the third movement, space travel, approaches the concept of acceleration by putting meter, wavelike gestures, and each of the four instruments through constantly intensifying (and then relaxing, it is a palindrome!) music.  The final Coda - into the light, is an homage to the music of Horatiu Radulescu.

This piece was made possible by a grant from the Fromm Music Foundation.  It was written for the MiVOS Quartet, with my huge respect and gratitude. 

Space:Time (2018)
For Electric Guitar and String Quartet

The Electric Guitar and String Quartet version was premiered by the Mivos String Quartet and Nadav Lev at the Israeli Composers League Festival at Ran Baron Hall in Tel Aviv, Israel October 6, 2018.

In four movements - 16’
I. Claustrophobia
II. Gravity
III. Space Travel
IV. Coda “Into the Light”

Published by and available from PSNY

Program Notes:

I find the physical barriers of space travel fascinating.  For this new string quartet my speculative interest focused on three notions of the physical.  Drawing parallels to Newton’s three laws of motion, point, velocity and acceleration, Space:Time has three layers of intensifying activity in musical sounds. 

The first movement, claustrophobia, captures a metrically rigid yet evolving musical landscape, starting in the upper stratosphere and capturing specific points in time.  The second movement, gravity, gently bounces two pitches in counterpoint across all registers.  And the third movement, space travel, approaches the concept of acceleration by putting meter, wavelike gestures, and each of the four instruments through constantly intensifying (and then relaxing, it is a palindrome!) music.  The final Coda - into the light, is an homage to the music of Horatiu Radulescu.