Category: Solo/Chamber

Musical performance marks a point of tangency between how we hear the world and how we engage with it, reflective of a deep reciprocity between listening and voicing. Windows Left Open presents such a tangency directly, allowing the reciprocity inherent in our aural engagement with the world to come to the fore. In this piece, performers’ musical decisions become contextualized as a larger exploration of "natural" phenomena. By leaving performers to engage with the piece's sound world on their own accord through microtonal pitch matching and aural feedback, the nuance of performance itself highlights a reasonableness for juxtaposing soundscape and algorithm in the fixed electronics. Through our awareness and sensitivity to performative provision, response, and imprecision, us listeners begin to take a few tentative steps towards situating ourselves somewhere between the two.