{"id":1547,"date":"2017-01-12T04:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=1547"},"modified":"2022-03-03T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:23:33","slug":"polychrome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/polychrome\/","title":{"rendered":"PolychROME"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>PolychROME\u00a0(2017)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">for flute, clarinet, horn, accordion, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, and bass [14:00]<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div style=\"float: right; text-align: left; align: right; margin: 10px 0px 5px 15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fchristophertrapani%2Fpolychrome&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=ff5500\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>&#8220;During the day my eyes and head filled up with a quantity of brightness that my brain couldn&#8217;t digest, and so it worked overtime, while I was asleep, concocting hours of deranged and brilliant footage as a way of using up the wash and surge of surplus color and excess light.&#8221; \u2014 Geoff Dyer<\/i>, &#8220;Decline and Fall&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/center><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-526 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DSCN1891-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN1891 (1)\" width=\"180\" height=\"160\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rome is a saturated city, overflowing with ornate detail. Like the gaudy interiors of its Baroque churches, there is a visceral sensory overload, too much to take in. But from a perch up on the Janiculum, where I spent a year at the American Academy, distance collapses that clamor into languor. Spread out below, the city\u2019s subtle color palette shifts slowly under its distinctive diffuse light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Today\u2019s kaleidoscope however is only a fraction of Rome&#8217;s historical color. &#8220;The temples, monuments, and statues were originally <i>painted<\/i>. The color of classical Rome was not chalky white but electric blue, strawberry blond, sunshine yellow, a seven-year-old&#8217;s coloring book.&#8221; (Anthony Doerr) The idea of delving into the color spectrum brought to mind G\u00e9rard Grisey, for whom Rome played a transformative role; his journals mention wandering the gardens at Villa M\u00e9dicis, brewing up plans for <i>P\u00e9riodes<\/i> and Ensemble L\u2019Itin\u00e9raire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1728 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_4625-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"200\" \/><i>PolychROME<\/i> opens with the image of reinvigorating the faded, sun-struck stones of antiquity, rediscovering the vibrancy their eroded colors. There is a sonic parallel here, an attempt to delve inside \u201cpitchless\u201d sounds to uncover and amplify their hidden components. The ringing of timbales, springs coils, and cowbells have been orchestrated in the ensemble (sometimes with the aid of IRCAM\u2019s <i>Orchids<\/i>) to create a microtonal halo that extends their resonance past its natural boundaries. At other points, the ensemble is reimagined as a large bank of resonant filters, oscillators that react to a solo line or percussion attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1719 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_3637-e1490956522777-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/>Throughout eight episodes, <i>PolychROME<\/i> embraces an unapologetically ambitious level of coloristic nuance: microtones, multiphonics, several types of mutes and preparations, polyrhythmic lattices. There are sunbeams and gold-leaf angels spilling out of high windows, busy geometric patterns of marble and colored glass in Cosmati mosaics, the screeches of neon-green parrots\u2014an invasive species, imported from North Africa\u2014whose cries punctuated work in my garden studio, and found their way into the fifth section of the piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1740 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_3574-e1491157041794-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"255\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The ending of <i>PolychROME<\/i> follows the arc of Geoff Dyer\u2019s story \u201cDecline and Fall,\u201d in which the vibrant city is gradually slowed to a state of paralysis by the stifling summer heat:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>\u201cEach day the city became hotter, emptier, quieter. The streets succumbed to a kind of eclipse: they looked, in bright daylight, as they did at night when all the shutters were down. It was August, \u2018the month of stalled pendulums\u2019 [Joseph Brodsky], and I too was stalled.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">In its final minutes, the lightness in the atmosphere begins to drag. Sonorities calcify; all forward motion evaporates. Everything ends up as spotlit and exposed as sunlight on hard stone. Like a cinematic fade to white, the piece dissolves into a blinding, unforgiving glare\u2014the polar opposite of subtle shading, stark sound stripped of all artifice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/center><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>PolychROME<\/i> was commissioned by the Wittener Tage fu\u0308r Neue Kammermusik and Ensemble L\u2019Itine\u0301raire. It was premiered on April 25, 2017 at Roulette in Brooklyn, New York, performed by members of Ensemble L\u2019Itine\u0301raire and ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), conducted by Jean-Michae\u0308l Lavoie. 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