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Radiance was commissioned by Duo Montagnard, and written for Joseph Murphy (saxophone) and Matthew Slotkin (guitar). The piece is part of a series of works that use the audience’s smartphones as a sound system. Music played on stage is selectively sent to a broadcast, which is followed by the audience on their devices. The sounds that appear are delayed, and everybody’s delay is different, so what you get is a kind of spatialized digital delay, with audience participation.

The piece itself unfolds in large sectional loops that can be mostly tracked through a signature motto played by the guitar at the end of most sections. Meanwhile, the piece is both driving and soaring (note to self: “Make clouds of arpeggiated chords that can float through cell phones”), seeking to engage saxophone and guitar in a wide variety of textural combinations, harmonies with chord extensions, and instrumental colors. The audience’s contribution provides the “radiance” for the players.

As a composer, I am super thankful to Matt and Joe for their hard work and dedication in helping to develop this piece, in performing it so well and so often, and for producing this beautiful and detailed recording.


Mark Engebretson is Professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the recipient of a North Carolina Artist Fellowship in Composition (for the Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra), a Fulbright Fellowship for studies in France, and has received major commissions from Harvard University’s Fromm Music Foundation (Acrylic Waves), the University of Wisconsin-Madison (They Said: sinister resonance), the Thomas S. Kenan Center for the Arts (Deliriade) and the Barlow Foundation. He studied at the University of Minnesota (graduating summa cum laude), the Conservatoire de Bordeaux and Northwestern University, where he received the Doctor of Music degree. At Northwestern he studied composition with M. William Karlins, Pauline Oliveros, Marta Ptaszynska, Michael Pisaro, Stephen Syverud and Jay Alan Yim and saxophone with Frederick Hemke. His teachers in France were Michel Fuste-Lambezat and Jean-Marie Londeix.

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from Radiance: New Works for Saxophone and Guitar, released September 10, 2021

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Duo Montagnard (Joe Murphy, saxophone and Matt Slotkin, guitar) was formed in 2002 and has performed over 300 concerts in 50 states, eight Canadian provinces, and twenty countries on six continents. The duo has commissioned, premiered and recorded more than thirty works for guitar and saxophone. ... more

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