Portals: Pollination

for SSAATTBB chorus.

Commissioned and premiered by Ars Nova Singers.

Duration: c. 10 minutes

Year of composition: 2016

Based on the eponymous painting by Julie Maren and poetry by Erin Robertson.

For their 30th anniversary, Boulder’s acclaimed a cappella ensemble, the Ars Nova Singers, performed their collaborative and interdisciplinary project, “Shared Voices.” For this performance, they assembled works of Colorado visual artists, invited poets/writers to view these works and to create new poetry based on them, and then commissioned four Colorado composers to write new music for chorus using these words. Conor Abbott Brown set poetry by Erin Robertson which was inspired by a painting by Julie Maren. Brown framed Robertson’s and Maren’s works in a world of invented language and unmoored, eerie musical landscapes.

(Audio/video not publicly available at this time.)