A few screenshots from our sessions can be found on this page. Roughly 200 of these gems are published in the score, for bands around the world to use and be inspired by. The physical and lighting aspects of the work were composed simultaneously with the music, and the score includes two additional staves devoted to movement and visual effects, leaving space on the score page for bands to add their own ideas as well.Įven before writing a single note of the score, I conducted Skype sessions with the majority of the 19 bands involved in the commissioning consortium, to elicit the musicians' creative ideas about what staging concepts might make a performance particularly unusual and engaging.
Mesmerizing!Ĭomposing this piece, I treated the visuals and movement the same way I treat the audio track- as an equal and additional "section" in the band, organically incorporated into the piece just like the woodwinds, brass and percussion. While it can be performed in any normal concert setting, it's most compelling when presented in the dark, slightly disorienting the audience and dazzling them with the beautiful colored aura from glowsticks, smart phones, and small LEDs placed inside the instruments and on the musicians' mallets and fingers.
I suppose you could call LIGHTS OUT an "opto-physico-electro-acoustic" work for wind band, because it was conceived from the onset as a visual media piece.
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