{"id":302,"date":"2015-05-26T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2022-10-27T21:13:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T02:13:05","slug":"swarm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/?page_id=302","title":{"rendered":"Swarm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">for alto saxophone and piano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Jeff Loeffert &#8211; alto saxophone<br>Caitlin Foster &#8211; piano<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Swarm.wav\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_66892\"  width=\"584\" height=\"329\"  data-origwidth=\"584\" data-origheight=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8-cbmqxNhY?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Program Note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><em>Swarm<\/em> was composed for the 2012 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cortonasessions.org\/\">Cortona Sessions for New Music<\/a> in Cortona, Italy. In this piece, I explore various extended techniques for the saxophone including timbral trills, growling, flutter tongue, varying degrees of vibrato, and playing inside the piano. The sound world of this piece is frenetic, shifting, and turbulent and is inspired by the many times I accidentally disturbed a fire ant colony or wasp nest during my youth in southeast Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for alto saxophone and piano Jeff Loeffert &#8211; alto saxophoneCaitlin Foster &#8211; piano Program Note: Swarm was composed for the 2012 Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona, Italy. In this piece, I explore various extended techniques for the saxophone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/?page_id=302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P31CW7-4S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherprosser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}