Alchemy In Silent Spaces (Mvt. 1) Steven Bryant

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This is a large-scale three-movement piece, with the first and third movements existing as modular works, available for performance separately. The first movement is drawn from music I wrote as an undergraduate while studying with Francis McBeth. The opening is sparse, utilizing mallet percussion, harp, and piano to create a floating sense of timelessness. This gradually builds over several minutes, ultimately launching itself into a grandiose, warm, harmonically consonant blanket of sound, after which it concludes with a single chord repeated four times at pianissimo. The music is for the most part delicate and quiet, relying on silence and space to create drama, rather than the relentless rhythmic energy common to many of my other works.

- Steven Bryant