Graiser, Brian- 4 Prisms [After Brown] for harp(s) and percussion (Digital Download)

4 Prisms [After Brown] for harp(s) and percussion includes 2 scores. 

Print size: Letter

Program Notes:

4 Prisms [After Brown] was written in May, 2019 for REFLECT harp+percussion (my wife Alaina and myself) and our dear Canadian friends Angela Schwarzkopf and Etienne Levesque. The piece is a response to Earle Brown’s 4 Systems (1954) for piano, which dealt with the “infinitely divisible continua” of time and sound. In 4 Prisms, I introduce the infinitely divisible continuum of light to this conversation, represented by the harp part, and four common kinds of prisms (dispersive, reflective, polarizing, and deflective) through which they can be redirected and/or transformed, represented by the percussion part.