for solo piano
duration: 28’

PROGRAM NOTE

Night Windows consists of sixteen musical “objects” akin to a collection of discrete houses. These musical houses borrow their structures from sixteen real-life houses I frequently pass while walking at night. An overall sense of scale, proportion and place emerge from the careful sequencing of these smaller, self-contained forms.

The music considers multiple opposing ideas: light vs. dark; symmetry vs. asymmetry; verticality vs. horizontality; repetition vs. discontinuity. These areas of architectural concern in the real-world houses are here explored musically.

Outside of these structural considerations, I was also looking for sound images that evoked the stillness and seclusion of a solitary night walk, past houses whose illuminated windows spill light out into the darkness, offering glimpses of lives otherwise unknown or out of reach.