Negative Space

Michi Wiancko: Fantasia for Tomorrow
(b.1976)
Movement I
Movement II
Movement III
Movement IV
Movement V

Kennedy, Neubauer

Hannah Kendall: Vera, for string trio and clarinet
(b.1984)

Walters, Kennedy, Scott, Watkins

Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor
(1875-1937)
Modéré
Pantoum
Passacaille
Final

The Paddington Trio

The most fundamental principle of design and form: an attention not to what is there but to what is not. Music is often colloquially understood (though there’s something much deeper behind the impulse) as an art of density: phrases like pitch space indicate a loose acoustic architecture, while textural thickness or harmonic richness signify gradations of saturation. And silence, of course—Cage proposed it most succinctly—is the absence that gives access to such a presence as constitutively identifiable at all: the empty space at the beginning and end and in-between movements of the work are as much a part of the music as the notes. Read more…

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