Describing RESON is challenging, because I am not sure where RESON comes from. The work, in its basic design, is intended to wrest and sculpt the resonance of the performance space in which it is performed, be this a small room or an ambient concert hall such as Kilbourn. However, there are further layers to the work, aspects which engage the reason of perception, the ways in which we perceive musical structure, and the ways in which we think about the ways in which we perceive structure of any type. Indeed, the form of RESON may not be directly heard, even after several hearings, but it remains my hope that in some way the form can be felt by those faculties of perception endemic to musical experience. This being the case, I am reluctant to write much about the construction of this piece, or about how this piece may best be heard. I would ask, simply, that the piece be received with an open mind, paying as much heed to the spaces between the notes, and between the performers, as much as to the notes themselves.

RESON is dedicated to Dan Davis, for whom the piece was written; I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to have written for him, since I admire him as a very skilled trumpeter, as a virtuoso musician, but foremost as a very excellent human being and friend.

Below is the first page of the score to RESON. If you would like the full score, please contact Jon Forshee per the Contact Info page.

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