I wrote this piece for Singing by Numbers, an all female choir founded by Catherine Lamb and Laura Steenberge to perform choral music in alternative tuning systems. We performed this piece with a string trio at the wulf. as well as with harmonium at the Getty in Los Angeles. This work creates a sonic texture as the vocalist gently slide between the pitches played in the chord that sounds throughout nearly the entire piece.
This is the image used for the score where the performers pick one vertical thread and follow it as they slowly raise and lower their pitches.
Singing by Numbers at the Getty in 2009. Singers left to right; Christine Tavares, Jessica Basta, Adrian Tenney, Jade Thacker and Christine Tavolacci. Cassia Streb on harmonium.