Ken Ueno – Like Dusted Sparks

Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble – Deviation
Released on GM Recordings, 2009

Six live recordings of World premiere performances, featuring SZS as soloist in Ken Ueno’s Like Dusted Sparks (2008) for solo timpani and wind ensemble. Eric Hewitt conducts. Also featured, works by Ryan Streber, Peter Gilbert, Marti Epstein, Craig Pellet, and Christopher Jon Honnett.

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Learn more about Ken Ueno at kenueno.com

The composer writes:
This concerto was written to feature the incomparable Sam Solomon, and premiered by him as soloist and Eric Hewitt as conductor. To play the cadenza, the soloist listens to and interprets a rendition of a vocal improvisation by the composer generated by a program written in the Max/MSP programming environment.  The program reassembles the original performance by the composer in such a way that the local details are different each time the program is run, but in such a way that the macrostructure is consistently recognizable.