ABOUT THIS WORK
BLACK HOLE, for string orchestra, attempts to sonically represent a cosmic event. The work begins with looking at this event from afar, as observers deep in space. Colorful and open sonorities in string harmonics help sculpt the vastness of space. As we move closer to the black hole, we begin to feel its pull: space gives way to a slow, syncopated accompaniment while we are hit with radical dynamic swells. As we draw closer to the event horizon, we are pulled into a swirl of 16th-notes, which move in unpredictable waves of motion as though pulled by their own sense of gravity. The pinnacle of the work is when we arrive at the final tutti section: the moment in which we are truly unable to escape the boundary of the black hole. We are left to admire the sheer force of this astronomical object as it encompasses us fully.
