Invitation

Composer's Note:

Invitation was created for the quartet of Pat O’Keefe, Jane Rigler, Glen Whitehead, and myself. I designed it to explore some possibilities of making music telematically for an audience listening on headphones and seeing the performance on a computer screen. Invitation is the result of many wonderful conversations with Jane about creating a multi-sensorial experience for an audience of an online (telematic) event. The approach taken in this piece invites the listener to experience a work by following what objects (in their current environment) attract their attention, whether visual, aural, or otherwise sensorial experience. Their attention is sometimes subtly nudged by the spoken-word text or the musicians, who are themselves responding to the objects that attract them.