Luminous, barely breaking the silence with miniscule gradations and returns, a Jacob’s Ladder of chimes ushers in Tyshawn Sorey’s Monochromatic Light (Afterlife), the 2022 piece for piano, percussion, viola and chorus which also serves as DACAMERA’s new label debut.
A DACAMERA co-commission with Houston’s Rothko Chapel and composed in celebration of its 50th anniversary, the piece’s opening gesture reflects and anticipates, conjuring sounds conjured for the chapel’s inauguration while prefiguring its own development and distilling Sorey’s compositional approach.
Pianist, writer and DACAMERA founder Sarah Rothenberg’s liner essay describes the work’s genesis. She, percussionist Steven Schick,…

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