Distant Bells (2021) ~4’

french horn and harp

Written for Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Distant Bells for French Horn and Harp explores the coloristic relationship between the two instruments. The horn often emerges out of the sound of the harp and vice versa, creating the impression that the two instruments are just one. Distant Bells begins with a chime, and the piece increasingly becomes denser as time progresses to a climactic moment of harp clusters. The energy built throughout the piece dissipates to the end.