TRANSCRIPT: July 8, 2020
MID-WEEK MUSICAL INTERLUDES #10

Hi, my name is Melissa Givens, Assistant Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and I'd like to welcome you to “Mid-Week Musical Interludes,” our podcast series featuring an array of glorious new and not-so-new works as recently performed by faculty, guests and students of Pomona College. For more information on the music from our podcasts please visit us at pomona.edu/musicpodcast, and music podcast is all one word.

This week we are treated to recording artist and flutist Rachel Rudich in her performance of the five-movement piece Liminal Highway written for flute, water bottles and electronics in 2016 by internationally acclaimed composer Christopher Cerrone. This recording is from the 28th Annual Ussachevsky Festival of Electro Acoustic Music on January 31, 2020

Liminal Highway (2016)
	I.	When you fall asleep in transit
	II.	A dream you don’t recall
	III.	Between Consciousness and Sleep
	IV.	Liminal (Warning Signs)
	V.	Suddenly it is needed

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE PODCAST

The Music Department extends its thanks to the composer and performers for letting us include their work in our podcast series.

The Music featured in this podcast was recorded in Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building located on the campus of Pomona College, 340 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA.


Read about the performer and composer:

Rachel Rudich (flute): pomona.edu/directory/people/rachel-rudich

Christopher Cerrone (composer): www.christohercerrone.com


Notes:

Liminal Highway for flute and four-channel electronics was co-commissioned by the Miller Theatre and New Music USA for flutist Tim Munro. Cerrone says he had no interest in writing a simple solo flute piece, “but wanted to create something completely new. And Tim Munro is so much more than a flutist.” Indeed, Liminal Highway’s immersive system of electronic sampling creates the sonic illusion of far more than a single soloist, even suggesting a variety of different environments.

The issue of resonance and how it relates to the process of memory is a central preoccupation in much of Cerrone’s music. As the winner of the 2015 Samuel Barber Rome Prize, he spent the year in the Eternal City exploring the intersections between music, architecture and acoustics, building an installation in a stairwell in the American Academy.

Cerrone took the title for his new work from a poem by the Canadian indie rock musician John K. Samson, which begins with the premise “when you fall asleep in transit.” Each of the piece’s five movements is subtitled after a particular line in the poem.