Since 2003 I have avoided using traditional music notation, instead gravitating toward graphic and text notation for my concert works and performed installations.  OBJECTIFICATION [cc1] is the first in a series of pieces that are traditionally notated realizations of my indeterminate works.  This particular piece is a realization for twenty-two strings of cooperation/convolution, a 2009 composition for sixteen or more instrumental performers.  That piece attempts to recast the typical hierarchical structure of an orchestra by placing ensemble members into groups of five or six that communicate through a variety of topological systems drawn from computer networking.  Each performer exerts equal influence on the rest of the ensemble, and these groups interact to create the total ensemble.  Though the structured improvisatory facet is not present in OBJECTIFICATION, it retains, to some extent, its predecessor’s more diffuse, non-hierarchical character.

The recording below features the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Roger Zahab.

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