I got called by by the fill-in Lasith
was last February they asked me to to
submit some material to see if I had
anything that they could play so I
submitted a bunch of things I thought
fit and some things I thought fit
certain players and and then they called
me back and said hey we want to
Commission you and that was really
exciting contact is great I've been to
many of the concerts one of the most
profound musical concert going
experience in my life it was the degrees
a capture shaunt the four songs that he
wrote at the end of his life that was an
amazing performance I saw that at the
met medium so fantastic the name of the
piece is binary momentary to slow state
joy state so the two is important
because it's the second piece in a
series of pieces that are kind of trying
to to approach composition in a way that
I approach improvisation so I'm an
improviser
I improvise on electronics I play the
laptop and I found that in the process
of improvisation and getting getting
really comfortable with my instrument I
feel like I can enter a kind of brain
state that is very focused very in the
now it's almost a spiritual place every
instrument kind of has a solo and the
trombones because there's two of them
and they're actually not even there in
stereo so I often think in stereo I'm a
sound engineer and electronic musician
so the trombones are kind of in stereo
the trumpets in the middle and then the
piano and percussion are kind of flanked
here and so the trumpet and the piano
and the percussion all have these big
solos so that's one of the ways in that
I'm dealing with the instruments is
trying to give them their individual
voice they're like expressive being able
to express themselves as individuals and
then there are parts of the piece where
everything kind of comes together and
everyone's doing the same thing I've
known Eric Euler for over a decade so
and he's one of my favorite new music
pianists pianists in general and he can
really play any music so I knew that
he would have no problem with anything I
wrote him so I was really thinking about
him with the piano