︎︎︎Info
Title
Sweet Nothings
Movements
No. 1
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4
No. 5
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4
No. 5
Inventory
pno/el pno
Year
2020-21
Duration
12’
Publisher
Adrian Knight Music
Recording
︎︎︎Detailed Inventory
Piano or Rhodes
︎︎︎Note
‘Sweet Nothings’ was written during the course of 2020-2021, coinciding tragically with the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. I wanted to write a kind of music that would evoke the ‘sweet nothings’ whispered in a loved one’s ear at night, a music that lets its guard down and simply exists in an uncorrupted, elemental state of charitable innocence.
Formally, the work is hard to summarize, because it was written intuitively and grew spontaneously into the form it finally settled in. Much of the music contains local symmetries of harmony, rhythm and contour. Strands of muzak, discarded soundbites from the local mall, utopian geometries, a futuristic sheen like the reflection of smog-infused sunlight in skyscraper glass, the crystal world of J.G. Ballard—I found these things and gathered them together for this occasion, for this exhibit of ‘sweet nothings,’ like a holiday window display at Saks, or perhaps somewhere more private.