{"id":282,"date":"2015-07-28T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=282"},"modified":"2015-08-27T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T11:49:09","slug":"north","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/north\/","title":{"rendered":"North"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>North\u00a0(2002)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> for orchestra (3.2.3.3 \/ 4.2.2.1 \/ 3 perc. \/ harp \/ piano \/ cel \/ mandolin \/ strings [14.12.10.8.6]) [6:00]<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fchristophertrapani%2Fnorth&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=ff5500\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h5 style=\"padding-right: 60px; padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>North? What searcher has ever been directed north?\u00a0What you&#8217;re supposed to be looking for lies south\u2014those dusky natives, right? For danger and enterprise they send you west, for visions, east.\u00a0But what&#8217;s north?<\/em> \u2014<em>Thomas Pynchon,<\/em> Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>North<\/em> was conceived during a trip to Western Ireland in August 2002, at the tail end of the northernmost summer of my life\u2013-three months split between Scandinavia, St. Petersburg, and the British Isles. Long stretches of coastline, at once beautiful and barren, sparked a desire to capture a simultaneous sense of lush tranquility combined with a stranger\u2019s skeptical distance and unease. What sits beneath the north\u2019s rugged, reticent, uninviting (at least to a southerner) exterior? A hidden pearl of warmth, or just empty ice? A guarded secret, or nothing at all?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">This tension between a surface austerity and the core of beauty or ambivalence underneath is the subject of <em>North<\/em>. The piece\u2019s fundamental materials are rigid in the extreme: an unwavering slow tempo from start to finish, regular repeated rhythms, a harmonic grid of six modes of six notes each that furnishes the work\u2019s entire pitch content, from the registrally compartmentalized modes at the outset to the expansive senza vibrato string chords four minutes later. Though moment to moment the music is colorful, intricate, and inventive, its constrained palette ensures that large-scale events unfold at a decidedly slow pace bordering on aimlessness. Contradictory sensations of time are explored throughout, most simply on the local level by superimposing rapid fluttering gestures against sustained tones, but also in its overall trajectory; North could be considered a measured linear journey or a tautological recycling of a single idea, but refuses to answer the question decisively. The final two minutes of the piece deconstruct earlier moments; reminiscences drift by as unhitched percussive sounds intrude as the central pitch (E) asserts itself ever more forcefully, finally closing the piece on an inconclusive note: a sudden sparkling sound which becomes duller as it fades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">In addition to the Pynchon quote that appears at the head of the score, Seamus Heaney\u2019s poem \u201cNorth\u201d also played a part in my work. Its three closing stanzas, the imagined advice of \u2018ocean-deafened voices\u2019 that the speaker hears along a northern coastline, provided a sort of mantra during a year spent in London that kept me motivated to<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230; \u2018Lie down<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> in the word-hoard, burrow the coil and gleam<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> of your furrowed brain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Compose in darkness. Expect aurora borealis in the long foray<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> but no cascade of light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Keep your eye clear<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> as the bleb of the icicle,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> trust the feel of what nubbed treasure your hands have known.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><!-- container --><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><!-- section --><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- section --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North\u00a0(2002) for orchestra (3.2.3.3 \/ 4.2.2.1 \/ 3 perc. \/ harp \/ piano \/ cel \/ mandolin \/ strings [14.12.10.8.6]) [6:00] North? 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