Nuages

(Clouds)

2022 . . . sound environment . . . (8:30)

Quoting Debussy as homage to the first of his beautiful Nocturnes, musical patterns float, repeat, morph, disappear. Many of my earlier compositions are titled under the category of “Animated Landscapes,” referencing a musical analog to landscape painting, sketching musical textures of moving, evolving pitch constellations and colors. Perhaps that makes Nuages a “skyscape.”

Much of the musical material is shared with the third movement of my string orchestra work, Three States of Water.