monochrome (2025)

violin, vibraphone, trombone, bass clarinet, fixed media and live processing [stereo], 6 min.

This piece was composed during Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 at McGill University in the context of a research-creation project on the role of timbre in the composition and performance of contemporary music with electronics.

In this piece, timbre is used as form-bearing parameter through orchestration techniques. Prerecorded sounds are used to this effect in combination with live processing of the four instruments.

Live recording of the premiere on April 10, 2025 at CIRMMT MMR, McGill University.
Olena Kaspersky (violin), Joseph Chang (percussions), Erynne McPhee (trombone), Ostap Kuchmiy (bass clarinet), Jeremy Ho (conductor).