{"id":513,"date":"2015-08-01T10:14:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T14:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=513"},"modified":"2018-08-12T12:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T16:01:22","slug":"anyplace-else","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/anyplace-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyplace Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Anyplace Else\u00a0(2012)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">for ten\u00a0players (flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone,\u00a0electric guitar,\u00a0piano,\u00a0violin, viola, cello, bass) [12:30]<\/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=\"360\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fchristophertrapani%2Fanyplace-else-2012&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>Anyplace Else<\/em> is a piece about restlessness: a rejection of stasis, a chronic uneasiness with standing still, a compulsive need for distraction and stimulation \u2014 the urge to always keep moving onward to something new. Over the preceding years I&#8217;d written several pieces about specific places, and thought (while composing in New York for a concert in Darmstadt, two problematic places themselves) I might attempt the opposite: a work about some elusive non-place just out of reach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The idea came to me after obsessively loading up my iPod with recently-digitized old 78s and field recordings. The soundtrack to spring 2012 was an unpredictable mix of hissy old vinyl captures of xylophones from Mozambique, fiddlers from Carolina cotton mills, West African Calypso: Exoticism on shuffle&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The music of <em>Anyplace Else<\/em> oscillates between three poles. The first is line \u2014 linear motion, often heard as a duet between two closely linked voices \u2014 sometimes nearly superimposed, like the muted piano and guitar at the outset, or sometime at a larger imitative distance, like the bass flute and viola with practice mute about two-thirds of the way through the piece. Often the timbre of these solo voices is altered; almost every instrument plays with some sort of mute at some point, adding a coloristic buzz, a non-harmonic shading to these passages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">A second primary element is texture: moments of stasis where forward motion momentarily collapses into a wash of static (often microtonal) sound. Inspired by the pervasive layer of noise on old records or the distortion of a guitar amp, there is often an effort to &#8220;dirty&#8221; up these lush moments, mixing some stable harmonic sounds with certain prepared sounds (in the piano or guitar) or other extended techniques \u2014 which brings us to the third pillar of the piece: noise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">It seemed somehow important to engage with this parameter more substantially than ever before in my work \u2014 or as one friend put it: &#8220;It&#8217;s like you said &#8216;Hey, I&#8217;m going to Darmstadt! Which shirt should I wear?'&#8221; From the opening of the piece \u2014 where lines are intercut with washes of white noise before gradually melting into a stable solid harmony \u2014 to the end \u2014 where flashes of consonance are interrupted by noise before coalescing into a final ascending chorale \u2014 the interplay between these three parameters is the thread that guides the listener through a ceaselessly shifting landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\"><strong>LINE<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">\u00a0 homophony \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0duets \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 chorales \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 muted scales, key-clicks<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\"><strong>TEXTURE [HARMONY] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0NOISE \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">&#8220;dirty&#8221; orchestrations<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">\u00a0non-harmonic buzz<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Anyplace Else<\/em> was written for and premiered by ensemble dal niente on July 21, 2012 in Darmstadt, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\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\" title=\"Christopher Trapani: Anyplace Else (2012)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/72433579?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyplace Else\u00a0(2012) for ten\u00a0players (flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone,\u00a0electric guitar,\u00a0piano,\u00a0violin, viola, cello, bass) [12:30] Anyplace Else is a piece about restlessness: a rejection of stasis, a chronic uneasiness with standing still,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/anyplace-else\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Anyplace Else&#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-513","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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