UC Berkeley

As I ride the late night freeways is a work for soprano and orchestra. The music is a setting of Census, a poem by Cathy Park Hong written specifically for this project. The score engages the notion of California freeway driving to suggest compositional processes and musical parameters to unify the musical work. Ideas derived from the parametric aesthetic provide a significant “streamlining” influence, echoed in the development of musical processes that take a variety of forms: from harmonic and textural elaborations drawn from the analysis of car sounds to a poetic suggestion of aerodynamism given by the algorithmic shaping of musical gestures and by the smooth morphing of one musical gesture into the next.