B2 & TANK Residency!

For almost a week in late September 2024, I had the enormous privilege of being an artist-in-residence at the TANK Center for the Sonic Arts in Rangely, CO. I was joined in this residency by three phenomenal musicians (Jordan Grantonic, violin; Emma Reynolds, viola; Peyton Magalhaes, cello) who, after nearly 18 hours of rehearsal and recording in the TANK space, premiered a new string trio of mine; Rail Dynamics is a 45-minute, 10-movement work for string trio and fixed media that reflects on defunct rail near my childhood home outside of Santa Fe, NM, meditating on the high desert landscape, the role of the rail in the basin’s cultural and environmental history, my own complicated relationship with the rail, and the strange, liminal bridges that connect them all together. I also had the great pleasure of performing two new works for solo fujara; As a Sparrow Flies Into Darkness, a piece written for me by composer/pianist Holly McMahon, and two short improvised sets.

Check out Rail Dynamics here: https://soundcloud.com/alanmackwell/sets/raildynamics