evermore everyday

Duration:

12'

Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University.

evermore everyday is an accumulation of time and the emotions brought on with each passing day. As the music continues to spin out, these emotions increasingly go toward the extremes, ranging from heavy melancholy to the feverishly ecstatic. There is a very gradual release of pent-up energy that is punctuated by the slow bell-tolling of piano harmonics – marking the inevitable onset of yet another day.

The trio of instruments creates shadows of each other, both in the texture of the music as well as the harmony. The syntax of the composition is full of imitation and slight rhythmic offsets, while microtonal deviations color several cyclical chord progressions. These features depict emotions hidden beneath the surface, as further evidence of our highly complex inner selves.

Finally, it was the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, with long stretches of days that became routine and predictable – that attuned me to my own emotions and how they can easily linger and build up. It was an inner turmoil that felt utterly quotidian at the same time. Thus evermore everyday is also a tribute to the very particular passage of time that spanned the timeline of this project.