Not Reconciled (2002)
(for ensemble)

Not Reconciled presents the traces of music over its 15–minute duration: the sound of fingernails brushing against strings, the rattling of snares on a snare drum, or the clicking of clarinet keys. These are all the artifacts of musical production, the debris if you will. And at first glance, like any debris, the assumption of disorganization is misleading: in actuality, its precision is ruthless. The question here is to make the intended precision experientially palpable and not in the least arbitrary. By stripping bare both time, pacing, and traditional categories of musical expression, a renewed music has the possibility to emerge through this stark visceral language.