{"id":657,"date":"2015-08-05T04:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T08:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=657"},"modified":"2019-05-20T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T03:36:07","slug":"visions-and-revisions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/visions-and-revisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Visions and Revisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Visions and Revisions (2013)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">for&nbsp;string quartet [11:30]<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1610199504\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/track=3090458385\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com\/album\/christopher-trapani-waterlines\">Christopher Trapani: Waterlines by Christopher Trapani<\/a><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Visions and Revisions<\/em> is a piece about circular thinking, a recurring focus bordering on the obsessive. Memory, rather than offering signposts for development, plays an intrusive role, as if the music is always trying to move elsewhere but gets continually stuck, distracted by involuntary slips into the past&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The template is Bob Dylan\u2019s 1965 song \u201cVisions of Johanna.\u201d Five verses, five variations. Each pushes further into new harmonic territory, but is always dragged back to three basic chords and their just intonation extensions. Gestures inspired by what Dylan later called \u201cthat thin, that wild mercury sound\u201d surface throughout: plucked guitars, expressive vocal slides, harmonica swells and bends&#8230; Just as Dylan\u2019s fifth verse spills over the established form (you can hear the Nashville session musicians scrambling to follow him on <em>Blonde on Blonde<\/em>), the fifth variation breaks through the frame, as loops and cycles pile up and recollections calcify, then crumble&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Visions and Revisions<\/em> was commissioned by the Wigmore Hall for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackquartet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JACK Quartet<\/a> and premiered in London on January 23, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visions and Revisions (2013) for&nbsp;string quartet [11:30] Christopher Trapani: Waterlines by Christopher Trapani Visions and Revisions is a piece about circular thinking, a recurring focus bordering on the obsessive. 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