Programm Notes

Gz is an abbreviation of the German word Gestaltzerfall, or "shape decomposition", a psychological phenomenon where one experiences a temporary loss of the ability to recognize certain letters, perticularly often experienced in Japanese Kanji, the characters that originally come from China. The works in my Gz series - all scored for two instruments - explore the plausible affects of the psychological phenomenon: uncertaintly, doubt, impermanence, loss, and the will to break awa...