{"id":1102,"date":"2017-06-06T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2017-06-07T21:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T01:05:49","slug":"lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2017\/06\/lost-and-found.html","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Long ago, I heard a lovely definition of creativity: \u201cFinding what has been lost and making it new.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been able to track down the source of that definition, but it\u2019s stuck with me.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ve all heard there is nothing new under the sun — and we can certainly extend that axiom to the knowable universe \u2013 but the number of things that have been lost perpetually increases.\u00a0 Maybe newness is a matter of perspective, of encountering and arranging the things we have lost into formations that engage us in new ways.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just completed a new brass quintet that takes this proposal literally.\u00a0 Called Lost and Found<\/em>, it arranges rediscovered objects (toy, frog, bicycle) along with concepts (love, fear, memory) into a design of aphoristic compositions, linked by brief passages of rummaging.\u00a0 The objects and concepts themselves are nothing new, but their juxtapositions put them in an unfamiliar \u2013 and therefore revealing \u2013 light.<\/p>\n

Lost and Found<\/em> is in fourteen attacca<\/em> movements, ranging from 6 seconds to two-and-a-half minutes in length:<\/p>\n

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  1. Rummaging<\/li>\n
  2. Toy<\/li>\n
  3. Rummaging<\/li>\n
  4. Melody<\/li>\n
  5. Love<\/li>\n
  6. Rummaging<\/li>\n
  7. Frog<\/li>\n
  8. Fear<\/li>\n
  9. Ligaments<\/li>\n
  10. Rummaging<\/li>\n
  11. Death<\/li>\n
  12. Memory<\/li>\n
  13. Lunch<\/li>\n
  14. Bicycle<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I mentioned the brevity of these movements in my last post<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The effort to say a lot with a little, to find the infinite in the infinitesimal, to speak with restraint rather than bombast \u2013 this is where I feel I need to be right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Long ago, I heard a lovely definition of creativity: \u201cFinding what has been lost and making it new.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been able to track down the source of that definition, but it\u2019s stuck with me.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ve all heard there is nothing new under the sun — and we can certainly extend that axiom to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}