Splitting Wood
For score and parts, click here for CMC link to Splitting Wood.
Title: Splitting Wood
Year Completed: 2009, revised 2020
Duration: 3 mins
Instrumentation: solo marimba
Premiere: Anthony Savidge, Acadia University March 2009
Program Note:
The composition process for this piece involved writing out several longer, cohesive sections... then getting a pair of scissors and some glue! Just like a woodpile, Splitting Wood is fragments and pieces of a whole that have been spliced, slightly rearranged and re-stacked. Maybe there is a cohesion to this new one that wasn't there pre-scissors. And maybe I've always looked at marimbas with part of my brain that thinks "gee, that marimba looks like some beautiful kindling"…