the DEEP TERRANE project

 

deep terrane is an open-ended, flexible, and highly collaborative series of pieces, projects, & performances concerned with temporal experience, form, affect, vibration, and community. Each piece is created through intense collaboration between the composer and participating musicians and ensembles:

  • there is no written score

  • the score is a sensibility, an attunement of one’s listening, an intention towards specific ideas

  • the score is an intentional but reciprocal experience guided by the composer and in response to the performers’ input through a series of workshops

  • the piece is not an improvisation

  • the ensemble must work in person with the composer

  • the composer must perform with the ensemble

  • a performance must be immediately preceded by several days of workshopping

Each deep terrane has its own idiosyncratic and inscrutable concerns which condition the collaboration. Each distinct deep terrane can be performed multiple times, though each performance will be different: what is consistent from one performance to the next is the intention and the sensibility. New deep terranes can be initiated and commissioned, or ensembles can work with the composer on existing deep terranes. Some deep terranes cannot be performed by anyone other than the initiating musicians. Each deep terrane is an invitation into a particular sensibility towards togetherness, experience through time, and haptic sensation.


extant deep terranes

deep terrane [2021] for solo bowed bass drum

  • performed by composer / OR / guided realization in collaboration with composer / OR / notated realization available for performers

deep terrane (earth dreams itself, sweating) [2023] for bowed bass drum & chamber ensemble [open instrumentation; 5-10 players]

deep terrane (untitled iii) [2023-4] for voice & bowed bass drum

  • initiated jointly & performed expressly by T McCormack & Ty Bouque

deep terrane (something moves) [2024] for small chamber ensemble & bowed bass drum (3 performers)

performances

deep terrane - T McCormack. Boston Conservatory. Seully Hall. Boston, MA [3/10/2024]

deep terrane (something moves) - Ty Bouque, Will Yager, T McCormack. 2640 Space. Baltimore, MD [1/23/2024]

deep terrane (earth dreams itself, sweating) - MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik w/ Ty Bouque & T McCormack. km28. Berlin, Germany [9/15/2023]

deep terrane - T McCormack. LUL Winter Composer Festival. Crashbox. Austin, TX [8/17/2021]

recordings