The Air Around Us
Audio: Studio recording. Voices: Charleen Andujar, Darby Clinard, Nick Fahrenkrug, Nathan Halbur. Piano: Alexander Wu. Audio Engineer: Syd DeLeonardis. Mixing Engineer: Devin Wong.
Video: Voices: Same as Audio. Video Production: Ciera Brooks, Nina Hasin, Alexander Horn.
Program Note
Premiere: Audience Participants and Marti Epstein. Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) – 2023.
Additional Performances: Sea of Perception: A Philosophy Art Show, Robbins Library, Emerson Hall. Harvard University Department of Philosophy (Cambridge, MA) – 2023; Audience Participants and Richard Carrick. Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA); Nightingale Vocal Ensemble, NightinGALA.Piano Craft Gallery, Inc. (Boston, MA) – 2024.
Awards: ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Finalist (2024); Masterclass with Matthew Aucoin, Berklee College of Music, Selected Composer (2024).
Press Releases: Sea of Perception: An Exhibition Featuring the Art of Becky Moon; NightinGala.
The Air Around Us is an exercise in aural collaboration and free interpretation. Composed for voices and piano, the piano creates a melodic foundation, sans rhythm, upon which the voices are integrated and layered. The voices interact with this harmonic framework by listening and responding to the piano, based on a series of vocal directions. By providing this guidance in prose, rather than traditional musical notation, this flexible, unique and varied participation invites vocalists of all skills levels and ages, including non-musicians and audience members.
Each performance will be different – in the pitches chosen by the vocalists and in the rhythms chosen by the pianist – depending on the personal interpretation and expression of each musician. The Air Around Us encourages individuals of all musical levels and abilities to listen, interact, breathe, and express themselves, together.
The Air Around Us
Audio: Studio recording. Voices: Charleen Andujar, Darby Clinard, Nick Fahrenkrug, Nathan Halbur. Piano: Alexander Wu. Audio Engineer: Syd DeLeonardis. Mixing Engineer: Devin Wong.
Video: Voices: Same as Audio. Video Production: Ciera Brooks, Nina Hasin, Alexander Horn.
Category: Vocal
Year Composed: 2023
Instrumentation: 3 to 30 Voices and Piano
Duration: 6 minutes
Press Releases: Sea of Perception: An Exhibition Featuring the Art of Becky Moon NightinGala
Premiere: Audience Participants and Marti Epstein. Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA)
Additional Performances: Sea of Perception: A Philosophy Art Show, Robbins Library, Emerson Hall. Harvard University Department of Philosophy. (Cambridge, MA); Audience Participants and Richard Carrick. Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA); Nightingale Vocal Ensemble, NightinGALA.Piano Craft Gallery, Inc. (Boston, MA)
Awards: Masterclass with Matthew Aucoin, Berklee College of Music, Selected Composer (2024)
Program Note
The Air Around Us is an exercise in aural collaboration and free interpretation. Composed for voices and piano, the piano creates a melodic foundation, sans rhythm, upon which the voices are integrated and layered. The voices interact with this harmonic framework by listening and responding to the piano, based on a series of vocal directions. By providing this guidance in prose, rather than traditional musical notation, this flexible, unique and varied participation invites vocalists of all skills levels and ages, including non-musicians and audience members. Each performance will be different – in the pitches chosen by the vocalists and in the rhythms chosen by the pianist – depending on the personal interpretation and expression of each musician. The Air Around Us encourages individuals of all musical levels and abilities to listen, interact, breathe, and express themselves, together.
