all those who live in such times - Ben Rieke

Technically, this piece is an aggregate of ideas that I have worked through elsewhere-formal iteration, visible process, and an emergent relationship between foreground and background. More foreign to my music, but present here, is a single explicit expressive goal: observing the situation, seeing the outcome unfolding in real time, and being unwilling or unable to do anything about it. Whatever desperation, solidarity, resignation or otherwise that results from being a part of something that will reach its logical conclusion, sooner or later, whether you want it to or not.
Performed by Slee Sinfonietta, June in Buffalo 2023

[@dustinledgard3973]

Norman has done his magic on you. Awesome piece!

[@benrieke5504]

Thanks Dustin! (actually wrote this one during last summer lol but the Norman magic is definitely real)