Even Deeper
General Info
Year: 2014
Duration: c. 8:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Solo contrabassoon and electronics
Publisher: Activist Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $70.00; (digital) - $50.00 | Score Only (print) - $15.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Oboe I-II-III
English Horn I-II
Bassoon I-II-III-IV
Contrabassoon
Prerecorded electronic track
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The original version of Even Deeper,, simple titled Deep,, was commissioned and recorded by Carolyn Beck. It uses the same audio track as Even Deeper,, but is set for the noble and profound solo contrabassoon.
A few years later, I had the opportunity to expand the music, again with the same track but this time for symphonic wind band in a piece titled Depth, the first movement of my watery, ocean-based suite, Immersion. When Daniel Baldwin suggested that I consider creating an adaptation of one of my works for a performance at the 2014 International Double Reed Society convention, well, this piece was an obvious choice; my imagination rumbles with the vibrations of the mere thought of so many of these great instruments and their fabulous players on stage together, intoning this anthem to the sea. Inhale. Exhale.
- Program Note by composer
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- International Double Reed Society Convention (Daniel Baldwin, conductor) – 6 August 2014 (New York, N.Y.) *Premiere Performance*
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Count to Ten (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Kitchen Sync (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Kitchen Sync. See also: Suite Treats
- Passages (Adaptable Band) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Ascent (2020)
- Beneath. See: Immersion (2010)
- Bioplasm (flute choir) (2004/2012)
- Bioplasm (flute quartet) (2004)
- Breathe (2020)
- Count to Ten (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Depth. See: Immersion
- Even Deeper (2014)
- Free (2022)
- Homecoming (2008)
- Immersion (2010)
- Kitchen Sync (Adaptable Band) (2021)
- Kitchen Sync. See also: Suite Treats
- Lights Out (2015)
- Liquid Compass (2014)
- Moment (2016)
- Off the Edge (2019)
- Paper Cut (2010)
- Passages (Adaptable Band) (2020)
- Pop Music (2022)
- Rock Music (2016)
- Surface. See: Immersion (2010)
- Suspended (2021)
- Tight Squeeze (2012)
- Train of Thought (sextet) (2015)
- Trains of Thought (concert band) (2015/2017)
Resources
- Alex Shapiro website Accessed 5 July 2020
- Shapiro, A. (2014). Even Deeper : For Double Reed Choir and Pre-Recorded Electronics [score]. Activist Music: Friday Harbor, Wash.