PROGRAM
NOTES
...blood blossoms...
For Amplified Sextet
2002
Notes by
Ken Ueno
Ken Ueno
This piece was
written FOR THE
Bang on A CAn
All-Stars.
spectral rock
+
avant-jazz meet
+
modernist structure
written FOR THE
Bang on A CAn
All-Stars.
spectral rock
+
avant-jazz meet
+
modernist structure
“The old junky found a vein...blood blossoms in the dropper like a Chinese flower...”
Naked Lunch (PG. 84)
William F. Burroughs
The Burroughs text made me think that beauty can be found in a medium full of potential power and destruction. In writing for an amplified ensemble, I sought to create delicate textures that played against the insipient power of amplification and distortion.