LARGE ENSEMBLE WORKS
If you are curious about or are interested in performing any of these works, please let me know! I can be reached at alanwmack@gmail.com.
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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for symphony orchestra (3333 4331 timp 3perc strings). ca 3’30
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Inspired by the atmospheres and downwards narrative pathways of the 2016 video game Inside and a vivid dream of waking up in an unfamiliar industrial corridor, Hollow explores and attempts to illuminate these dark, liminal spaces by slowly shifting and maneuvering through dense, drone-like textures.
Read by the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra on May 2, 2024.
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for symphony orchestra (2222 4231 timp 2perc harp strings). ca. 10’
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two scenes from the banks meditates on the evocative descriptions of Montana’s river ecosystems depicted in Norman McClean’s A River Runs Through It, pulling textures from moving water and fly-fishing techniques.
Premiered by the University of Colorado Boulder Philharmonia on February 12, 2024.
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for symphony orchestra (3333, 4331, timp. 3perc harp strings). ca. 5’30”
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Inspired by puzzle games like The Witness and Myst, Rounds experiments with its titular compositional device by expanding its definition into something totally encapsulating; polyphonizing texture and canonizing entire structures.
Premiered by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in November 2019.
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for symphony orchestra (3333, 4331, timp 3perc harp strings). ca. 3’30”
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Myst meditates on the 1992 video game of the same name, winding through colors and textures as a player would wander Myst’s oddly beautiful world.
Premiered by the Boston Conservatory Symphony Orchestra in November 2016.
STRING ORCHESTRA
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for string orchestra. ca. 8’
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two scenes from the basin is a work for string orchestra that synthesizes themes inspired by the Coen Brothers’ 2007 film No Country For Old Men with the experience of passing abandoned vehicles along the interstate on the Texas side of the Permian Basin. Through the lens of these abandoned vehicles, two scenes explores images of the Basin’s harsh, yet enchantingly beautiful landscape; wide open spaces seemingly alien and uninhabitable are jarringly interrupted by the violence of human expansion across the desert before ultimately yielding to stillness, a reflection on the powerful sense of isolation that will always be fundamental to the Permian Basin experience.
At its core, two scenes from the basin is a celebration of the unworldly qualities of the Basin conjoined with the ideal that someday the landscape will overcome mankind’s transgressions upon it and regain its fullest own strange and ethereal self.
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for string orchestra. ca. 30’
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Piney Mountain Pastorals, inspired by Craig Johnson’s bluegrass song Damn Old Piney Mountains, is a study on the reclamation of human-ravaged space by nature in the context of the Appalachian logging industry.
Read by the Tufts Chamber Orchestra on April 27 2021 at Tufts University.
CHOIR
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for SSAATTBB choir. ca. 3’
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e(ver) pulls apart a brief note written on the inside of a book given to me a long time ago; eliminating all consonants, the work seeks to illuminate the emotive edge to the language used.
Premiered by Renova New Music Chorus at the University of Colorado Boulder on March 18 2024.