Length: 8 minutes
Composed: 2007
Premiere: May 1, 2007. New England Conservatory. Boston, MA.

Program Note: Lucid Innocuous is part of my ongoing exploration of integrating improvisation into composed music in new and different ways. I began sketching some of the ideas for this piece the summer before I began studying composition in college, and eventually put it aside to focus on other projects. There just didn’t seem to be a place for the rock-influenced patterns which I wanted to use in this piece in the curriculum and in hindsight, I didn’t have the technique to pull of what I really wanted to do. Almost seven years later, at the end of the final year in my masters program, I came back to this piece and finished it. During my two years at New England Conservatory I became acquainted with the possibilities of both live electronics and non-jazz contemporary improvisation which have had a profound impact on my music. With this added technique, I was able to make something of those old sketches, while still providing a link to a more “innocent” time, before my formalized education in composition began.

Recent Performances

April 15, 2022 | ContraBAND. Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Boston, MA.