Composition Studio

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Emerging and established composers explore unconventional sonic landscapes in this concert of music by students, faculty, alumni, and guests of the UW Composition program.

PROGRAM

Hand Soap in Flux: Savannah Johnston
Savannah Johnston, voice

Flashback: Lu Yin
Tristan Greeno, Lu Yin; piano

Structured Improv Session
Jay Rauch, bassoon; Ryan Carraher, electric guitar; Sandesh Nagaraj, electric bass; Tristan Greeno, piano


PROGRAM NOTES

Hand Soap in Flux — Savannah Johnston

Change is unavoidable. It can feel harsh but also gives you a sense of cleaning up a chapter to work on a new one. This cleansing nature is where I derive my title for this piece. On the day I began to write for this project I also accidentally gave myself slight bleach poisoning while deep cleaning my home. It was painful, abrasive, and embarrassing but at the end of the day I learned lessons and also my house was incredibly clean. While on a walk trying to get normal air back into my lungs I had a chance to really think about the nature of change and what it meant to me at this point in my life. It was an infuence while creating this piece and wanted to relate it directly in the title — Hand Soap in Flux. Hand soap suds, bubbles, and cleans but it’s not as wildly abrasive as Clorox which relates to the intensity of thought I found more fitting.

—S. Johnston


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