Outer Voices

Outer Voices (2022) explores the emotional and musical facets of disruption and harmony, doubt and clarity, and the journey of finding one’s inner compass. Throughout the piece, the performers evoke the weight of outside expectations and how those expectations can lead to confusion and indignation or spur growth and direction, highlighting outer voices from a music theoretical perspective as these voices attempting to command the piece’s polyphonic unfolding. In this way, the piano and saxophone alternately align and diverge, representing one’s inner and outer world.