I’m delighted to to have tracing a line included in Christopher Adler‘s new release, Landscape Traces: New music for khaen, volume two.
My piece was selected from a call for scores hosted by the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium. Chris said of my work, which: “explores the fragility of the khaen’s timbre when it is played softly, and employs a visually striking time point notation that is well-suited to treating every pitch as a separate voice with distinct attack and release points.”
Christopher Adler is a composer and performed based in San Diego, and has been playing and composing for khaen for almost thirty years. He’s encouraged others to write for the khaen, a bamboo free-reed mouth organ from Laos and Northeast Thailand.
Many thanks to Chris – check out this release full of great new music for khaen on Bandcamp, as well as his many other works.
