“Matt and I have had Grisey’s Quatre chants on our proverbial to-do list for almost four years, and I am so excited to bring our vision to life in May of 2023.”

“Here we have sinking, falling, drifting in musical form. Every phrase in this is remarkably similar, drifting and dropping downward. No wonder, with a text about an angel dying, that the music itself would fall like feathers in the air.”

“The funeral march is among the oldest known musical structures. References to musical marches for the dead trace back to before the invention of music notation. While not exactly a funeral march, Grisey recreates the spirit of one with its heaviness and constant downbeats.”

“ …the idea that sound is not an object, or a motion, but is itself alive, experiencing birth, life, decay, and death.”

“Grisey’s interludes are close to white noise, but as any one who listens to white noise knows, there are many different flavors of white noise.“

An Empty Garlic and The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits