Footprints I
Trumpet and electronics | 2017 | 8'
Composed for Sam Wells
Past Performances:
David Joo, trumpet. National Student Electronic Music Event, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Feb. 8, 2019.
Sam Wells, trumpet. NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival, Concert 8. Abrons Art Center, New York, Jul. 18, 2018.
Premiered by Sam Wells, trumpet. SPLICE Festival, Participant Concert 4. Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Jun. 17, 2017.
The trumpet is a character entering into a new world. It speaks through the music it “knows” (many will recognize the allusions). Through granulation, however, these known phonemes transform into a landscape that the trumpet must navigate.
