String Quartet No. 1 by Catherine Lamb performed by JACK Quartet

String Quartet No. 1 by Catherine Lamb
Performed by the JACK Quartet

JACK Quartet
Austin Wulliman, violin
Christopher Otto, violin
John Pickford Richards, viola
Jay Campbell, cello

Presented by the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program in collaboration with the Center for New Music.

Live-streamed on December 2, 2020 from Kaufman Music Center's Merkin Hall in New York City.

From Catherine Lamb:

This came out of a period of form writing where I was interested in the building blocks of proportional (pitch-spaced) relationships, where each structure fit directly into the next, expanding out from a central point. I was inspired by crystalline growth patterns and the perceptions around those shapes, and from a glissandi-directed piece I had just finished for any four bowed string instrumentalists entitled grow (out). Keeping the same macro shape of opening as two slow, displaced blooms, I became focused on the details of each micro growth within and tried it as a classical string quartet arrangement. I was much more satisfied with the result—the structures began to take on a clearer vibrancy and movement (out). I wanted to see how far the micro and macro structure could remain of the same substance, only displaced in dimensionality through our own cognition of what is large or what is small.