In the week that the lockdown started, I was supposed to have a piece premiered at Oklahoma State University. I was up there with Tyler and we happened to have our instruments with us. We started to play together in his living and I secretly recorded us because I like to get “found sounds” in my compositions and get anything that I can that’s organic. We listened back to it later and there’s a big section that we locked in with each other, which we loved, so we decided to transcribe and orchestrate it into a chorale.

Conjured music is aleatoric in nature. We took snippets of the chorale and used those ideas in a way that culminated into the chorale that we had built together which was based off of Tyler and my improvisation together – so it is us in music form right now!

More info about Danielle and her music can be found at : https://daniellefisher.net/ 

Premiered on August 21, 2020

Mary Matthews, Flute

Matthew Angelo, Flute

Brian Do, Clarinet

Danny Mui, Bass Clarinet

Jeffrey Leung, Saxophone

Dakota Corbliss, Horn