{"id":510,"date":"2015-08-01T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=510"},"modified":"2020-02-29T19:14:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:14:28","slug":"sparrow-episodes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/sparrow-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparrow Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Sparrow&nbsp;Episodes (2006)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">for sixteen&nbsp;players (flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, electric guitar, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass) [8:30]<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 20px; 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%2Fsparrow-episodes&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;\"><em>Sparrow Episodes<\/em> unfolds like a musical comic book, a series of consecutive&nbsp;snapshots. Musical material varies wildly from frame to frame, but as a whole they trace&nbsp;a single relentless forward narrative. Ideas are introduced, explored for very small&nbsp;spans of time (20-30 second on average), but are never given sufficient time to develop&nbsp;before they are pushed aside to make way for the next idea. This pattern continues for&nbsp;the first three-quarters of the piece, until the guitarist activates an eight-second delay&nbsp;loop for the final two minutes. Recall is avoided for most of the piece then forcibly&nbsp;imposed at the end, and memory has a rather untraditional and dysfunctional role as a&nbsp;result, as if the saturated world of the opening is viewed in distant retrospect in the&nbsp;conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin: 5px 20px 5px 20px;\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"float:right; width:400px; height:290px; margin-left:10px; margin-bottom: 10px; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CrBGY2mvfP0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Two common threads recur throughout the piece. First, a chord progression borrowed&nbsp;from the song \u2018Sparrow\u2019 by Myshkin (a songwriter and singer friend from my high school&nbsp;days in New Orleans), the obscure departure point for this project simply because of its&nbsp;strong resonance in my own memory. The second is the sound of the electric&nbsp;guitar\u2013\u2013my guitar, played through a cheap amp in the small apartment in Paris where&nbsp;the piece was composed this summer. Its rough, dirty sound is integrated literally, by&nbsp;placing a guitar amidst the ensemble, but also figuratively, by coloring the vocabulary of&nbsp;gestures and harmony of all the instruments. The harmonic compass of <em>Sparrow&nbsp;<\/em><em>Episodes<\/em> is wide, ranging from tonal to \u2018spectral\u2019 harmonies derived from the amplifier&#8217;s ring modulation, and part of its purpose is to force a dialogue between these potentially&nbsp;contradictory systems of thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The piece is scored for sixteen players (the standard formation of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, plus electric&nbsp;guitar), and the musicians are separated onstage into four quartets: strings in front,&nbsp;woodwinds on the left, brass and bassoon on the right, and the piano, percussion,&nbsp;guitar, and an amplified contrabass in the rear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2219 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Schermafbeelding-2018-02-21-om-14.55.37-1-1024x506.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Schermafbeelding-2018-02-21-om-14.55.37-1-1024x506.png 1024w, http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Schermafbeelding-2018-02-21-om-14.55.37-1-300x148.png 300w, http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Schermafbeelding-2018-02-21-om-14.55.37-1-768x379.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparrow&nbsp;Episodes (2006) for sixteen&nbsp;players (flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, electric guitar, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass) [8:30] Sparrow Episodes unfolds like a musical comic book,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/sparrow-episodes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Sparrow Episodes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-fullwidth-noheader.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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