wint’ring (2025) | 8’ | 111(dblng. bscl)1, 1110, egtr, bgtr, ds, str:11111 | with video by Courage Barda

written for the inaugural 2025-26 Overtuned Fest in Bloomington, Indiana as part of the Rock Sinfonia + Visual Art Collaboration

I wrote this piece while watching birds fly south from my window. In Midwestern America, specifically under the Mississippi Flyway, early winter bird migration means that we get to see species that don’t often come around—often some interesting waterfowl flocks coming all the way from northern Canada, the Hudson Bay, and even Greenland. This year brought a plethora of swans, geese, and many other birds I don’t have the ability to recognize. It makes sense why so many indigenous American musical traditions imitate/evoke birds (Inuk katajjaq, Kumeyaay ashaa takook, Andean sikuri, etc.). Watching these birds fly by in their long formations, I became quite enamored with the sounds I was hearing. They made their way into this piece, and a scene emerged—a soft winter horizon of snow, dried-up trees, pale-blue skies, and, of course, migrating birds.

premiered by Josh Catanzaro, Robert Cardon-Wake, Pavle Gavrilović, Javier Hernández, Christopher Herz, Ethan Hiner-Stolhand, Noah Lopez, Madison Sinan, Tierney McClure, Hannah Wendorf, Jacob Wolf, John Woodward, Jasper Wright, Lev Roshal, & Josh Wright on February 26th, 2026 at the Switchyard Park Pavilion in Bloomington, Indiana

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