Version for six or more pianos over internet

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PROGRAM NOTE

Clouds in Single File is a “latency canon,” a piece conceived to be played by performers in different places that specifically embraces the inherent unpredictable latencies (delays) between the parts as a central sonic feature, to make beautiful unpredictable canons (rounds). The more players the richer the spread of micro-canons that feather the sound like clouds.

Musicians and composers have always been good at adapting to spaces and dynamics; there’s a huge difference between playing in a tiny practice room versus a concert hall versus a cathedral. The 2020 pandemic forced us into our own individual living spaces, with their dynamics and acoustics. But then the internet introduces its own dynamics, latency chief among them. Rather than try to defeat it, we choose to play with it, as one would play the resonance of a cathedral.

The title idea comes from a dream where the clouds began lining up neatly and heading across the land in a single file that stretched to the horizon.

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