New England Drift (2011)
New England Drift was commissioned by Stephen Drury and the Callithumpian Consort to be premiered at the 2011 SICPP music festival at the New England Conservatory of Music. Being aware of the group's expertise with and affinity for open-form works by composers such as Christian Wolff and Earle Brown, I decided to compose my first open-form piece specifically tailored to the ensemble. At any moment in the piece, performers may be playing material from one of five distinct musical "layers." The conductor decides in real-time which performers should be playing which layer. This piece is different from many open-form works in that the materials available to the performer change over time, ensuring a degree of parametric evolution which has been determined by the composer.
