I noticed that I haven’t written in awhile, so I thought I’d post a quick update.

I’m now fully re-located to St. Paul and I absolutely love it.  I’ve been working on some music for Pierrot ensemble.  Right now I’m just calling it Void Music but I’m also toying with the idea of calling it Music Crossing a Void or Music through a Void or something like that.  This is music that I’m writing in collaboration with visual artist Gabriel Pionkowski, and I’ll present it at a lecture recital in Madison this September.

I also decided that I’m going to turn in not eleven movements for my dissertation, but seven.  I think seven is much more manageable and it will yield a more solid piece.  I think I’ll some day write for the remaining four, though.

As it stands, I think the order of the movements for the symphony (now titled Music for Orchestra in Seven Incarnations) will be:
I. The First: W.H.
II. The Second: P.T.
III. The Ninth: C.E.
IV. The Seventh: S.M.
V. The Third: J.P.
VI. The Fifth: P.D.
VII. The Fourth: T.B.

The remaining four, then, will make a fabulous symphony on their own, too.  Possibly:
I. The Tenth: D.T.
II. The Eighth: P.M.
III. The Sixth: C.B.
IV. The Eleventh: M.S.

Anyway, as it stands, I’ve got 1-1/2 more movement to complete, and I’ll be finished with the dissertation in time for a December 2011 graduation.