Aaron Larget-Caplan

Guitar

Composer's Note:

At the end of 2021, I began composing the music that became the six pensive solos of honey cadence, issued on Tiger Turn, and the first of my compositions to be recorded and published.

I began by sketching melodies and gestures that were floating in my head with the intent of creating an album of meditative intimacy, which though on the quiet side, would be able to keep the listener's attention.

I explored through improvisations that highlighted my favorite qualities of the guitar: tone and timbral variation, note doubling, harmonics, pitch bends, and percussion.

Influenced by John Cage, Agustín Barrios, bits of Bach and Villa-Lobos, and many New Lullaby Project composers, with nods to Ravel and even the band, Queen, I tried not to get in the way. The latter two weren't necessarily conscious, but I can't not hear them now.

Each title has a connection to music, as well as general language, i.e., "anticipation' is a musical ornament and linguistically expresses expectation or prediction.

May the music add some sweetness to your life.