Many Many Cadences for string quartet by Sky Macklay http://www.skymacklay.com/ Performed by Spektral Quartet Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0189X16RA iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/serious-business/id1067981492 Sono Luminous: http://sonoluminusstudios.com This video was uploaded with permission from Sky Macklay, Spektral Quartet, and the label, Sono Luminous NON-COMMERCIAL USE (posted for divulgation and educational purposes only).

Many Many Cadences

I wrote Many Many Cadences for Spektral Quartet and this recording is from their Grammy-nominated 2016 album Serious Business. We first met at The Walden School when they were ensemble-in-residence and we soon found that we were all pondering approaches to musical humor. In this piece I stretch the listeners’ perception of cadences by recontextualizing these predictable chord progressions in very fast cells that are constantly changing key and register. These lonely, disjunct ends-of-phrases eventually congeal and transform into new kinds of phrases and sound objects.

Many Many Cadences is published by C.F. Peters: https://www.edition-peters.com/works/many-many-cadences/ep68659