We’re honored to be a part of Kari’s debut portrait album releasing on Sawyer Editions. Featuring our 2023 CURIOSITY Commission: “Shelf Life” for saxophone quartet and fixed media.

enclosures addresses issues of space, place, reverberation and resonance across five pieces. An exercise in scale, each piece is a portal: a biome, containing its own environment, weather, sense of time. Featuring juxtaposed convolution reverbs that transport an ensemble through real and imaginary spaces, beatings between Just Intonation and Equal Temperament, a triptych of environ- mental portraits, an exercise in the musicalized resonance of the harp’s pedal mechanism, and finally, an exploration of precarious sounds and sonic expiration, these works are attempts at worldbuilding that conserve intimacy—each piece a sonic imprint, a palimpsest of both positive and negative space, a constellation of both event and aftermath.
- Kari Watson

released January 10, 2025