Wishart, Tongues of Fire—Notes on Form

Time

  • 0:00 Introduction of motive
    • Motive triggers a series of gestures
    • Silence
  • 1:00 Motive reappears
    • Motive triggers a series of gestures
    • silence
  • 1:45 “New” material: middle of motive developed
    • Series of gestures on varied material
  • 4:00 Stable moment with new texture & material
  • 4:30 Stability breaks up and the material is developed
  • 7:30 Material from 4:00 reappears briefly
  • 9:00 Stuttered figure enters stubtly, ends up in fogreground
    • Silence
  • 10:05 First material restated
    • Material triggers a new series of gestures
  • 11:50 Pitched material brought back from the beginning
  • 15:00 Granular texture rises to be accented by another pitched hit
  • 16:10 Sounds like a recap of an earlier moment, but more stuttered; pitched hist go up and down
  • 16:50 Pitched version of voices appears briefly
  • 18:20 Pitched voice motive reappears alongside other gestures
  • 21:00 Slow fade out
  • 22:00 Single sound pulses, slowing down
  • 22:30 Slow down to brief silence
    • Numerous isolated motives from earlier in the piece reappear
  • 23:20 Motives build and accelerate
  • 23:50 Original motive reappears
  • 24:10 Final gesture