David Felder

Netivot

Felder weds a string quartet with pre-recorded track for a contemplative; contemporary performance piece. Netivot was commissioned by New Music USA; made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust; Helen F. Whitaker Fund; Aaron Copland Fund for Music; and the New York State Council on the Arts. Felder: 'The overall title refers to spiritual pathways; connections among many identifiable nodal points; or regions; each one a continuity of experiencing; not an aim in itself. The first movement works with powers of concentration and fine attention; the second movement responds to an unfolding metaphoric; imagistic landscape as a consequent of the first movement and begins to develop rudimentary song from an intonation of specific scale points and formants - musical objects as things arise and disappear; and in the last movement; the linear becomes vertical in two chorales; The third movement's title refers to pillars of cloud and of fire. Each region has its own feel; but all of the individual phrases and materials are made of the same basic stuff.' (Edge of the Center; June; 2016)