Poetics for Viola and Double Bass

Poetics was composed during 2012 for Heidi von Bernewitz and Rob Nairn and recorded by them on the Emeritus Recordings CD "The Matrimonial Duos". During 2011 the composer took a short form poetry class with Ann Metlay through the Osher Lifelong Learning Center at Yavapai College. Both the forms and the resulting poems created by the composer became the inspiration for the composition. Movements are: 1. Pleiades; II. Shadorma; III. Triolet; IV. Bantu; V. Cinquain and VI. Gogyohku.