Strength

For alto saxophone, sound files, and interactive video/audio processing (Max/MSP/Jitter): Julia Nolan, saxophone; Bob Pritchard, diffusion

Strength is a convergence of the metallic and the human, the durable and the impermanent, combined audio and visual domains. The saxophone's sound acts as controller and controllee, triggering and interacting with the processing of male body images and the sounds of machinery. The work's three-part form can be experienced in a variety of ways, such as Approach, Engagement, and Reflection, or Belief, Experience, and Transformation. Strength was written at the request of Julia Nolan, and premiered at the 2006 World Saxophone Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia.