{"id":3071,"date":"2023-01-28T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T16:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=3071"},"modified":"2023-01-28T11:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T16:35:40","slug":"no-window-without-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"no window without a wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>no window without a wall\u00a0(2022)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">for thirteen\u00a0players (flute, oboe d&#8217;amore, clarinet, alto\/baritone saxophone,\u00a0horn in F,\u00a0two percussionists, harp, piano,\u00a02 violins, viola, cello) [11:15]<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1347138520&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/christophertrapani\" title=\"Christopher Trapani\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christopher Trapani<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/christophertrapani\/no-window-without-a-wall\" title=\"no window without a wall (In Memory of Jon Hassell)\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no window without a wall (In Memory of Jon Hassell)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>no window without a wall<\/i> pays tribute to late trumpeter\/composer Jon Hassell, who passed away last year in Los Angeles. Embracing a style he termed &#8220;Fourth World,&#8221; Hassell remixed African, Indian, and European concepts into a personal amalgam he called &#8220;a proposal for the coffee-colored classical music of the future.&#8221; Drawing on years of studying Hindustani music with Pandit Pran Nath, Hassell conceived of his compositions as essentially reproducing the classical arrangement of soloist, tabla, and tanpura \u2014 in other words: line, rhythm, and harmony \u2014 while feeling free to augment those basic parameters with synth timbres, looped samples, percussion instruments drawn from multiple traditions, and the distinctive sound of an Eventide harmonizer that turned his restrained harmon mute lines into wide waves of parallel motion. A microtonal rendition of this effect can be heard about 5 minutes into no window without a wall, against a harmonic palette colored by the harp (with certain strings detuned by a quarter-tone) and bowed strings that buzz with aluminum foil, against the backdrop of a shifting arsenal of &#8220;exotic&#8221; percussion: tabla, bat\u00e1, shekere, bongos, almglocken, and (later) berimbau. Interlocked polyrhythms, inspired by Cuban clave and African timeline patterns, are heard constantly throughout the piece, first in softly alternating brushstrokes that underpin a gradually emerging microtonal mode, fragmented melodies shared by horn and cello, then oboe d&#8217;amore and viola. Wind multiphonics and untempered piano harmonics lend a metallic glint to the modal lines that eventually align with a series of descending dense treble chords. A coda featuring a tuned gong, harp multiphonics, and the berimbau offers a brief glimpse of another &#8220;possible music&#8221; full of rebounding attacks and accumulating resonance. Despite the inescapable baggage of making &#8220;world music&#8221; as a white musician in the 80&#8217;s, Hassell stands out in my view as a genuine polymath and an instinctive searcher, freely recombining from the traditions he inhabited and admired \u2014 an approach not so different from what I try to do in my own work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>no window without a wall<\/em> was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation and written for the Grossman Ensemble. It was premiered in Chicago on May 20, 2022 with James Baker conducting.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div style=\"float: center; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: center; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 14px; margin-bottom: 7px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JgDILWkOSIY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>no window without a wall\u00a0(2022) for thirteen\u00a0players (flute, oboe d&#8217;amore, clarinet, alto\/baritone saxophone,\u00a0horn in F,\u00a0two percussionists, harp, piano,\u00a02 violins, viola, cello) [11:15] Christopher Trapani \u00b7 no window without a wall<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;no window without a wall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth-noheader.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3071","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>no window without a wall - CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"no window without a wall - CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"no window without a wall\u00a0(2022) for thirteen\u00a0players (flute, oboe d&#8217;amore, clarinet, alto\/baritone saxophone,\u00a0horn in F,\u00a0two percussionists, harp, piano,\u00a02 violins, viola, cello) [11:15] Christopher Trapani \u00b7 no window without a wallContinue reading &quot;no window without a wall&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/\",\"name\":\"no window without a wall - CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-28T16:35:40+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"no window without a wall\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/\",\"name\":\"CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI\",\"description\":\"composer, guitarist, electronic musician\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"no window without a wall - CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"no window without a wall - CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI","og_description":"no window without a wall\u00a0(2022) for thirteen\u00a0players (flute, oboe d&#8217;amore, clarinet, alto\/baritone saxophone,\u00a0horn in F,\u00a0two percussionists, harp, piano,\u00a02 violins, viola, cello) [11:15] Christopher Trapani \u00b7 no window without a wallContinue reading \"no window without a wall\"","og_url":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/","og_site_name":"CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/","url":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/","name":"no window without a wall - CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-01-28T16:35:40+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/no-window-without-a-wall\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"no window without a wall"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/#website","url":"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/","name":"CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI","description":"composer, guitarist, electronic musician","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6uncd-Nx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3071\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}