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Christopher Trapani: Holding Patterns

for double bass, electric guitar and electronics

(2021)

A holding pattern is a circular loop flown by an aircraft while waiting for clearance to land. Here it is a work entirely made from loops, often aimless–like tops spinning in place, waiting for a decisive push. An electronic tool, called the »Loopsculptor«, layers the live sound, not creating precise echoes, but reshaping these phrases with constantly shifting dimensions.

Holding Patterns was commissioned by Yaron Deutsch and Uli Fussenegger, with the expressed desire that the piece should allow the performers to branch off into an improvisation. The form of the piece circles back on itself before taking this foray, then returns for a composed coda.
Christopher Trapani

Christopher Trapani
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Christopher Trapani (*1980 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American/Italian composer. He is currently living between Palermo and Los Angeles, where he teaches at the USC Thornton School of Music.

Christopher is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and a former winner of the Rome Prize (2016–17) and the Gaudeamus Prize (2007). He has held fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Camargo Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation.

Waterlines, his debut portrait CD, featuring performances by Talea Ensemble, JACK Quartet, and others, was released on New Focus Recordings in 2018. A second recording of Waterlines by ICTUS was released in 2020.

Projects for the 2021–22 season include commissions from Klangforum Wien and Ensemble Modern, a new work for the Grossman Ensemble at the University of Chicago (Fromm Foundation Commission), and a new song cycle for a consortium of sopranos, commissioned in conjunction with the 2020 Barlow Prize.

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