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Chris Sies. percussionist. collaborative artist.
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This is an original work of mine for singing bowls and fixed media. Dreams of Glass We Knew is the concluding movement to my larger work Edges. More on Edges
Performed with Gabbie Reyna
Music for Horizon Lines is a work for percussion quartet and electronics written in the summer of 2016. The work is in four sections:
I. Waves
II. Converge
III. Into the Night
IV. Song
Music for Horizon Lines is a four movement work of flexible length scored for percussion quartet and live electronics. Ideally, a performance will last 30-40 minutes. The year before this work was composed, I had just moved to Chicago from Ann Arbor, MI. It was my first time living in such a massive city. I often found myself taking walks to beach on Lake Michigan and spending countless hours observing the horizon line where the lake and sky met. It seemed as if I was directly experiencing infinity as I watched the sun set so gradually. This is a large influence on the pacing of this work. I consider each movement a sonic meditation on a particular texture with emphasis on the consideration of timbre, pacing, and transitions between movements. In performance, I always like to imagine that we try to make one movement’s soundworld turn into the next.
John Luther Adams once said that "All noise contains pure tone." Music for Horizon Lines is my way of exploring this notion in an attempt to find clarity and peace of mind. The work was premiered on August 21, 2016 at the Jam Handy building in Detroit, Michigan as part of the Detroit Bureau of Sound's "Hitting Stuff".
Performers:
Isaac Levine / Electronics
Zac Brunell / Percussion + Voice
David Newton / Percussion + Voice
Chris Sies / Percussion + Voice
Jon Taylor / Percussion + Voice
More information on the Detroit Bureau of Sound
www.detroitbureauofsound.com
Highlights video from the premiere.
Translucent Bodies is a duo for percussion and electronics written for my friend and collaborator Peter Ferry. The work takes its name from a recurring dream of mine in which an ambiguous figure says the following:
“… and though you believe you can see through me clearly,
I am translucent -
allowing only some light to pass through.
Not all.”
Premiere performance on December 10, 2017 at Slate Arts and Performance gallery in Chicago, IL.
Infinity Rx is an earlier percussion duo of mine composed for my dear friend Nicole Patrick. Written in 2013, the work makes use of two percussionists around one vibraphone with an array of cymbals, focussing on the resonant properties of these instruments.
