Gabriel Gekoskie

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Janiculum takes its name from two sources: the Janiculum Hill in Rome and the fourth movement of Ottorino Respighi's Pini di Roma. Both references evoke the grandeur and timeless presence of the Cupressus sempervirens, or Mediterranean cypress tree. Janiculum is written for Mary Pulanco.

Intended as an inviting meditation, Janiculum should be performed with little haste. Rubato is encouraged throughout, especially leading into and departing from breath marks. Breath marks in Janiculum serve a dual purpose: room to breathe and a brief pause, or lift. Janiculum takes an AB form. A successful performance will emphasize the difference of these two sections while maintaining a warm, inviting timbral palette.

Janiculum

Clarinet Solo Unaccompanied

The practice of topography is defined as a detailed description or representation on a map of the natural and artificial features of an area. These representations are typically made using a series of lines and contours. When the lines are closer together, there is a more notable elevation change. This piece follows this principle by increasing the contour of the music as time goes on.

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Modest Mutilation explores how one's fondness of past memories can be rapidly re-contextualized based on their current struggles. Modest Mutilation is an ode to Philip Glass's Knee 5. A vast majority of the elements in Modest Mutilation are derived from a granulated variation of Knee 5. Philip Glass's works have been a large inspiration for many of my early compositions. Modest Mutilation serves as a farewell to these old inspirations as my artistry develops.

Modest Mutilation

Saxophone Quartet

Aphonos (from biblical Greek, meaning “voiceless” or “without sound”) traverses the concept of silence as a different, dense sound. In the context of this work, silence and non-silence are equal temporal events, bound to only scale in magnitude by the time domain.
Inspired by the iconographic scores of Kevin Sims, Raven Chacon, Olivia Katz, Pauline Oliveros, alongside the aesthetics of the Wandelweiser ‘group’ (namely Michael Pisaro and Jürg Frey), Aphonos adopts a minimal notation scheme. 
Aphonos is written for and dedicated to the Varsity Tuba Quartet.

Aphonos

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Come As You Are, Pay As You Go is a pseudo-dramatic retelling of Canto III from Dante's "Inferno." The title alludes to acting on one's instinct or intuition first an dealing with the consequences later.

Come As You Are, Pay As You Go

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