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threshold (for anne truitt)

from Behind the Curtain by The Witches

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Composed by D. Edward Davis

"Anne Truitt was an artist from Maryland. She was born in Baltimore in 1921 and grew up in Easton. Later in her life she lived and worked in Washington, DC. In the 1960's and 70's, Truitt was a prominent female artist in the male-dominated art world, creating pieces that engaged with the male-dominated Minimalist aesthetic. Her art took a variety of forms, including paintings, drawings, and prints, but to me it is her sculptures that are the most engaging and emotionally moving.

Truitt's sculptures are boxy and shaped like pillars or columns. They are usually around human scale—near to my height or a little taller. They rest directly on the ground. Truitt painted them in a variety of gentle tones. These washes of color often at first glance seem monochromatic, but in fact vary slightly over the entire surface. It is, of course, impossible to see more than two sides of the column at once, so one must move in order to experience the entire work.

Truitt once wrote: "The emotional impact of the sculpture depends on memories accumulated as one walks around it. The impact is cumulative, available to remembered experience rather than to immediate visual impression." This striking description of a static work of art can easily apply to music as well: it exists in time as well as space, and in order for music to make sense to us—to have any "emotional impact"—we must rely on our memories. These can be memories of the parts of the piece that have already occurred, of course, but they might also be memories of other music we have heard before in our lives, or even sounds we can call to mind that were not originally heard as musical.

My piece threshold (for anne truitt) is in 20 parts, each named for one of Truitt's sculptures. I think of each small moment as an individual column or pillar, standing alone, surrounded by silence, awash in soft colors, seemingly static but actually alive with subtle motion and energy. The collection of all 20 parts functions a bit like a curated gallery or exhibition space: we can perceive the works individually or choose to consider them in relation to each other, searching our memories to find the connections between them."

-D. Edward Davis

for more info about the composer, visit sound.warmsilence.org

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from Behind the Curtain, released October 19, 2017

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