Everett - Duet for Marimba & Vibraphone
Everett, a duet for Vibraphone and Marimba, is a piece i’ve written for and dedicated to a life long friend of mine, Aaron Moeller.
Everett is about a trip I went on with Aaron to Wisconsin, in the Spring semester of 2024. For about a year, I was going through many trials and tribulations with my mental health, as you do in college. We decided to take the trip after having a very intense, very rough semester across the board. I coined my oh so affectionate phrase, “God, I want to go west, ”as another way of saying, “I'm tired of this, grandpa!” My western wanderlust was more of a pipe-dream, Washington is more than just a trip down the interstate. So we settled for the next best thing.
Not knowing of the very active, very aggressive tornado weather in the area, we camped for the night on the coast of Lake Michigan. I can still hear the very intense sounds of the lake crashing on itself. The piece is mainly inspired by a series of conversations Aaron and I had throughout the night, discussing the meaning of life and what it means to be a person among people. Again, as you do in college.
Programmatically, the piece follows the journey of the trip, with an adventurous opening motif I call, “the midwest car-ride motif.” The pace is broken by a middle section with a programmatic use of ocean drum, (although Aaron prefers to call it a lake drum.)
The ending takes a turn, driving forward with harmonized arpeggiations between the two players. This is more for my ode and appreciation to Aaron and all the things he's put up with from me. In the end, I think you can question the meaning of life all you want. Sure, the answer could be that we’re flesh-bags who ended up in existence by means of purely happenstance. Maybe there's something more. Regardless, we are here. We are capable of love, in all rights of the word. I find that I can do more with that answer than any other wonder of the unknown.
Everett - Duet for Marimba & Vibraphone
Everett, a duet for Vibraphone and Marimba, is a piece i’ve written for and dedicated to a life long friend of mine, Aaron Moeller.
Everett is about a trip I went on with Aaron to Wisconsin, in the Spring semester of 2024. For about a year, I was going through many trials and tribulations with my mental health, as you do in college. We decided to take the trip after having a very intense, very rough semester across the board. I coined my oh so affectionate phrase, “God, I want to go west, ”as another way of saying, “I'm tired of this, grandpa!” My western wanderlust was more of a pipe-dream, Washington is more than just a trip down the interstate. So we settled for the next best thing.
Not knowing of the very active, very aggressive tornado weather in the area, we camped for the night on the coast of Lake Michigan. I can still hear the very intense sounds of the lake crashing on itself. The piece is mainly inspired by a series of conversations Aaron and I had throughout the night, discussing the meaning of life and what it means to be a person among people. Again, as you do in college.
Programmatically, the piece follows the journey of the trip, with an adventurous opening motif I call, “the midwest car-ride motif.” The pace is broken by a middle section with a programmatic use of ocean drum, (although Aaron prefers to call it a lake drum.)
The ending takes a turn, driving forward with harmonized arpeggiations between the two players. This is more for my ode and appreciation to Aaron and all the things he's put up with from me. In the end, I think you can question the meaning of life all you want. Sure, the answer could be that we’re flesh-bags who ended up in existence by means of purely happenstance. Maybe there's something more. Regardless, we are here. We are capable of love, in all rights of the word. I find that I can do more with that answer than any other wonder of the unknown.