THE SPACES BETWEEN

The Spaces Between | Written for Eight Blackbird, Commissioned by the Gilmore Piano Festival

Duration: 9 minutes

The Spaces Between plays with the architecture of filling gaps left by other instruments, creating dialogues between different voices and generating a kinetic need to fill a void, as if struggling to find stillness within itself. One instrument’s rest becomes another’s call, creating a texture of constant motion through perpetual exchange.  The work also journeys through contrasting worlds, as virtuosic passages give way to shadowed, dreamlike territories and sonic landscapes that delve into hidden chambers of the psyche but don’t stay there too long. Instead, the piece moves through and returns, transformed, with more vibrancy, lightness, and playfulness. Latin and American musical gestures appear throughout, but as traces rather than declarations.