From the composer
“Composition is more than the music on the stand. When I first joined UT, it was only about the music. I was not thinking about what the composition offered beyond notated staves. I channeled a new method of exploring creative ideas, and while this summer will help everything settle, I have challenged this approach rapidly through the performance art style that you will witness tonight.
What I have accomplished in this recital is very much so the beginning of a new path. I am glad to have you embark on this journey with me.”
Performers
Wes Coffin, trombone
Tony Gamez, trombone
Ryan Hirokawa, Subject C
Noah Hudson-Camack, trombone
Moses Ramirez, Subject A
Kenneth Ramsay, Subject B
Micah Rosenstein, trombone / cajón
Konner Wetterstrom, trombone
WAR UPON OURS (2026)
For Five trombones and fixed media
Duration: ca 8:00
Program Note
WAR UPON OURS (2026) negotiates mortality as something belonging to all of us which is threatened. Five characters: the Archivist, the Celebrant, the Fatalist, the Escapee, and the Dissenter explore being seen as finite through their significant responses to Death. Attempts to resist, ignore, or escape the inevitability of dying unravel with time. Auld Lang Syne juxtaposes the rational of these characters as they wrestle with life and purpose. Who gives up? Who stays optimistic? Who ignores certainty?
Performers reveal their true nature by achieving, corrupting, facing, escaping, or rejecting their reconciliation with Death. Birth, embodiment, response, and occupation are contingent to this perspective. We are here and we will leave. What happens in between is yours.
read, shred, repeat. (2026)
For Solo flex instrumentation and printer
Duration: ca 13:00
Program Note
read, shred, repeat. (2026) targets cognitive decline in humanity from the use of artificial intelligence. What does this reality render us who have become reliant on technology for basic tasks? Artificial intelligence is weakening human brain functions. What are the problem solving capabilities of future generations should we never change this fate?
Artificial intelligence is a printer and humanity the performer. The performer inserts paper into the printer just as basic human functions are patterned by A.I. . Entrainment generates musical material to play, as refinements in artificial intelligence increase with sustained human interaction. The ending suggests a future surpassed by or devoid of this technology, with an imposed quiet reflection on what we will have become.
Pedestrian Study (2026)
For Three human subjects, carried objects, and cajón
Duration: ca 9:00
Program Note
Pedestrian Study (2026) takes pedestrian movement as musical material, morphing influence into a means of total control. Commentary on the rhythm of humans colliding are isolated by three human subjects, exploring the way in which we as humanity exist off of the same wavelength.
Subjects move from voluntary gestures to emergent behavior through unique movement. This link absorbs identity, strips individuality, and creates a controlled environment of the human experience. Conformity is manipulated, weaponized, and attempted to be imprinted onto the viewer.
Thanks for attending!
6:30pm - Lobby Talks with Dancing Cactus (it likes to talk)
7pm - Doors open
7:05pm - Start
7:40pm - End
7:41pm - Lobby
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