swarm is a solo performance for trumpet, concentrating on breaking the instrument down into its constituent parts: air metal spit song. swarm is a graphic composition: while the framework of the piece stays more or less constant, the details change performance by performance, place by place. Written in 2009 at the Harold Arts residency, swarm has since been performed throughout the United States.
Watch a complete live performance below, recorded in August 2010 at the Sycamore Bar in Brooklyn:
Watch excerpts from another performance, in October 2009 at If Art Gallery in Columbia, SC, below.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AE5424CB14ED3E26
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on October 31st, 2010 at 21:22 #
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