Rhythmic Thoughts (2013-2014)

Duration

5 minutes and 53 seconds

Instrumentation

Double Bass

First Performance

December 8, 2014 at Slippery Rock University

Program Notes

Rhythmic Thoughts is a piece about obsession, self-exploration, and introversion. Boxed-in by short durations, the double bass ruminates through exploring its stuck repetitive low E and pitch-space, trying to discover its limited motivic content and rhythmic transformations.