Michael Gordon
Cold (2011) 15'
1.1.2.1/1.2.1.0/2perc/pno/2.1.2.1 + electronics [all instruments amplified]
Ensemble Modern
first performance:
Micromotions accumulate into larger rhythmic forms, begin pulsing in ever changing colors, gain psychedelic volume, cool off, frost over, virtually shimmer an icy blue when figures, cut sharp and crisp like the marks left by the blades of ice skates, slide over the subtly swirling mass of sound
– Frankfurter Neue Presse