Kodafilm

This collection of miniatures for solo guitar form a loosely pastoral tapestry inspired by the confluence of Diné and Hispano residents of the Rio Grande River Basin, in what is known today as Corrales, New Mexico. As an agrarian community whose origins predate the earliest colonial efforts of what we now consider the United States, the citizens of Corrales connected their dwellings not with roads, but with irrigation pathways, or “arroyos” from the nearby river. To this day, the Village of Corrales continues to have only one single paved road.

Each movement in Kodafilm is a micro-piece that can stand alone, performed linearly as a suite, or be connected to the other movements in a variety of ways using musical ‘arroyos’ to arrange the pieces in any order that suits the performer.

From the artist: Composed during the early days of the Coronavirus shutdown, Kodafilm is a meditation on the precious but nebulous qualities of memory and the freedoms of childhood. Quarantined in a modest apartment in the middle of an urban metropolis, these pieces were my way of journeying home.

Selections from Kodafilm appear on two releases from the Infrequent Seams K7 2023 Commissioning Series, available here.

A one-sheet is available here.

A full score with performance notes is available for purchase, all interested parties may inquire here.

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