It took ten years, but LATENCY CANONS is finally released. Ten years from its Carnegie Hall premiere it is now out on a magnificent recording. It was a technically-nearly-impossible idea even back in 2013, to make symphonic-scale music live over the internet. But my friend the conductor and composer Paul Haas believed in the piece and kept trying. The result is this gorgeous recording by Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (SoNA) with three composers, and three very moving works that all speak to connecting with our hearts over huge distances, across impossible barriers, through hard times, from generation to generation. Canon is the musical practice that involves self-similar entities offset somehow, by time or pitch, or by random internet delays, or by pandemics. A delay, but a connected and meaningful one. Fitting! I hope you’ll get a chance to engage with this music.
