Cleansing Waters for flute, clarinet, saxophone, and piano

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2018
10 minutes
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7 pages (flute part)
7 pages (clarinet part)
7 pages (alto saxophone part)
21 pages (score)

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Inspired by the natural water recycling process known as The Living Machine, Cleansing Waters is a musical realization of the way water is purified by filtering it through plants and bacteria. It was written in memory of Alex Chun, and dedicated to all those involved with The Living Machine at Oberlin College in Ohio.
 
The watery music relies on waves of sound being produced by wind instruments and the piano. At first, the winds have calm melodies and the piano pearls of sound, with soft dissonances suggesting a slight muddiness to the water. Later, turbulence builds up to cascading waterfalls, the water's dirtiness revealed by dark, thick, dense harmonies. Then a recycling process occurs, with the earlier music being inverted: the calm melodies are now in the piano, and the pearls of sound come from the winds. Finally, the process of cleansing the waters is completed by a serene resolution of the music.  
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With Riste Tevdoska, Riley Richard, and Aleksandra Tevdoska at Oberlin College
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With Stanislav Golovin, Lindsay Leach-Sparks, and Todd Gaffke at Cleveland State University