Program Note

the GAP (2023) is an improvisation/composition that explores the closed piccolo. [5 minutes] The title refers to the gap in time between the past and future as referenced in Jenny Odell’s Saving Time:

“To live in the gap between past and future is quite simply the human condition… Looking mournfully to the future in which something new can never happen, we can’t see ourselves standing in the gap, the only place where anything new is capable of happening. It makes me wonder if one meaning of ‘having time’ is to halve time – to make a cut in chronos and hold the past and the future apart as much as hope will allow.”