Shadows of Clouds
-2019-
string quartet (ca. 12")
Performed by the Carpe Diem String Quartet at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy on June 28th, 2019.
Shadows of Clouds was written for the inaugural Chigiana Summer Composition Program with Richard Danielpour and the Carpe Diem String Quartet.
The piece is a reflection on what it means to live in a post-nuclear age, with global annihilation only a few political missteps away. Portraits of terror and confusion are contrasted with desolate, radioactive landscapes, bookended by a brief “meditation” on either end to ground the ear and ease the listener into and out of the world of the piece.