On 29 April 2018, I gave a presentation titled Clouded Transformation and Temporal Disorientation in Bryn Harrison’s Rise (2003) at Manhattan’s School of Music, NY.
The paper analyses Bryn Harrison’s Rise (2003) through the critical lens of liminality. Across the 14 minutes of the work, the clarinet and piano motifs are in constant conflict and transformation. Although a simple structural process, the process is clouded by four musical parameters: form, pitch, rhythm and dynamics. Listeners and performers are temporally disorientated throughout this liminal experience of motivic metamorphosis.
