@article{stain:3030,
      recid = {3030},
      author = {Mettens, David Clay},
      title = {stain, bloom, moon, rain},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2021-06},
      pages = {72},
      abstract = {"stain, bloom, moon, rain" is a work for thirteen  musicians, premiered by the Grossman Ensemble in March  2020. The piece is divided into three movements: i. stain;  ii. bloom/moon; iii. rain. Each word of the title refers to  an archetypical image or set of images that reappear  constantly across a collection of 9th and 11th century  Japanese poems, in English translations by Jane Hirshfield.   These poetic images serve as the guiding metaphor for the  affective and sonic world of the three movements. stain  explores noisy alterations or distortions of the  characteristic timbre of each instrument in the  ensemble—practice mutes for the strings, singing and  playing for flute and horn, pedal buzzes for the harp, and  aluminum foil on the bars of the mallet percussion  instruments. bloom/moon features a melodic line played by  all four strings, which occasionally blossoms into rich  four-part harmony, before condensing back to a single part.  rain charts a transformation from brittle points and harsh  jabs to a blurry watercolor of bleeding colors and dripping  harmonies.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3030},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.3030},
}