Premiere: Unheard-of//Ensemble, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, Thursday, August 15, 2025

 

Duration:  ca. 8'00"

 

Program Note:

 

Stomping Ground is based on Orly Genger’s sculpture at the McNay Art Museum sculpture garden in San Antonio, Texas. Genger fabricated the sculpture out of brightly colored recycled lobster rope and fashioned them into large mounds with which you can climb over, sit on, and physical interact. This piece takes inspiration from the kinetic, extroverted, and playful quality of the sculpture and references its construction material with field recordings of lobsters communicating, underwater soundscapes, stomping, balls and other objects bouncing, children playing, and vibrant synths and percussion. The live instruments intermingle and blend with the track. The sculpture’s inventive world captured my imagination; in building a sonic corollary to the sculpture, I fashioned a mystical and wild narrative path with which the listener can freely associate elements of their experience viewing and interacting with the sculpture.