8 minutes
2006

Written for Kendall Crilly, a true gentleman and valued professor during my time at Yale, this piece was written specifically for the organ at Center Church in New Haven. Consequently, it is of little use for most organists and organs. The composition brings together two disparate elements: a kind of additive and subtractive “ground bass” with an overlay of wisps and ephemera. Importantly, from a technical point of view, the piece picks back up the spatial approach to rhythmic notation I explored in Nocturne (2001) and would emply again and again in succeeding years.