Endless Ladders, Distant Stars (2021)
for virtual wind ensemble (score only)
for virtual wind ensemble (score only)
for virtual wind ensemble (score only)
Endless Ladders, Distant Stars (2021)
For the University of Toronto Wind Ensemble - Gillian MacKay, Conductor
Moving the goalposts. Endless ladders. Changing the rules of the game. Whatever phrase you might prefer, it is hard not to feel like we have all been climbing an endless ladder since March of 2020. After surmounting one obstacle, finishing one semester, playing one recital, the end still seems like it is way up in the clouds above, maybe even in the stars beyond.
Endless Ladders, Distant Stars meditates on the goalpost quandary, the feeling of endlessness and hopelessness. But concurrently, it is an expression of optimism. The piece requires fine-tuned recording and collective playing, despite being a ‘fragmented’ piece of music—it shows that despite existing as individuals in space time, we can create so much more than just music as a collective, despite the distance imposed by our current reality.