{"id":244,"date":"2022-04-07T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2023-03-12T21:55:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:55:49","slug":"under-cover-of-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/07\/under-cover-of-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Cover of Night &#8211; for flute and piano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Duo Axis: Works by Graduate Student Composers\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H0VktL6AvKg?start=1859&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Under Cover of Night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Under Cover of Night<\/em> initially started as a tribute to &#8220;Under a Blanket of Blue&#8221; from the album <em>Ella and Louis<\/em>, but as I continued composing, the piece came further and further away from that initial conception. This piece was originally written for Duo Axis who I had the pleasure to work with and who were more than reasonable about my constant questions regarding inside piano techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I constructed this piece in several waves, each connected by a processual thread. During each part of the process, I wanted to include a new but repeating parameter for the piano part. Similarly to the construction of <em>Quartet for the End of Time <\/em>by Olivier Messiaen, I wanted the piano to have set rhythms which would repeat at a prime interval and chords that would repeat at a different prime interval. But I had also been experimenting with voicings and wanted similar voicings that would repeat at a third prime interval to create a constantly shifting view of the same notes and rhythms. After weeks constructing these chords, I began to discover how I could shift the chords further by changing when each note was struck, giving them a further internal rhythm which gained energy over time. Then to break the process further and to decrease the energy toward the end, I slowed down the initial rhythmic pattern a number of times. Following this intricate work with the piano part, I simply improvised flute parts (focusing on repeated notes and dynamic work, as is my MO) until I had a number of elements which I knew I would enjoy, resulting in one of my favorite pieces that I have ever written, and a fantastic performance to match it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Cover of Night initially started as a tribute to &#8220;Under a Blanket of Blue&#8221; from the album Ella and<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/07\/under-cover-of-night\/\" class=\"readmore\">Listen Here<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Under Cover of Night &#8211; for flute and piano<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[56,55,29,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephvasinda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}