Incantation

Incantation is dedicated to the Architek Percussion Quartet of Montreal and was written during the Fall of 2014. The title comes from musicologist Tomlinson’s Music and Renaissance Magic, which looks at the importance of music as a magical force in ritual through examining the treatise of renaissance scholars/magi. While my music is often conceptualized along the lines of imaginary musical tradition, literary inspiration, or some sort of technical inquiry, this piece searches no further than the sounds of the instruments and the musical ideas it contains. Instead, this piece considers a musical performance as casting a spell: a musical incantation.