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Program Note:
In 2025, legislation was proposed to the House of Congress that would require dual-citizens residing in the United States to choose one of their two citizenships and relinquish the other, putting into question my own dual citizenship between the United States and New Zealand. I have long struggled with my identity in regards to nationality (too Kiwi to be fully American, too American to be fully Kiwi), and while unlikely to pass, the proposed legislation has only amplified the sense of placeless-ness that has long defined how I see myself in the world.
blue hour descends on cline's corners, written for saxophone, percussion, electric guitar, and piano, confronts this disturbed sense of citizenship; weaving together widely spaced harmonic material, microtonal dissonances, and sonifications of a truck stop near my childhood home in the desert outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
blue hour descends on cline's corners was written for the Spring 2026 Hypercube Composition Lab, and was premiered by the Hypercube ensemble on March 29, 2026.