Martha Whittington, Music for dance, August 2012 (by Jon Ciliberto)

The music for this installation/performance is built these premises:

- completely acoustic
- meant to be quite backgroundable
- having a sense of repeated motion, but not as by a machine, rather by human hands
- 20 minutes in length, with different episodes, but (one hopes) flowing together well

As I made them I was thinking about some of the motions: ladder, working with the eggs, etc.

Rather fast, xylophone phase

Work Song

Slow, open (lots of elements here, they are for trying out, not for all being included; i.e., it will become more sparse -- my goal in general is for this NOT to have lots of / any hooks or things that jump out trying to grab attention. My feeling in general about this one is that I like the elements, but I don't like the major chord-minor chord thing that is going on. So, I would re-do it in a more open, maybe just one chord throughout, manner).