Kurticus Music
The music of composer Kurt M. Mehlenbacher.
Music by Kurt Mehlenbacher
New Music
Just Another Night
This piece tells multiple different stories in a single way, and the story that unfolds is determined by the performer.
The first movement, Foreplay, is characterized by extreme register shifts combine with a tradeoff between strongly modal and semi-tonal harmonic centers. The leaps into the higher register could be understood as cries of pain, or abrupt transitions from one mood to another, or even a separate voice that is always present in the movement despite not always being played. ...
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Supernal Dragonfly
Supernal Dragongly is the culmination of two years of study during my maters at Arizona State University. It is a single-movement work that captures individual personas within a single being by the means of contrasting articulations and uniformed harmonic motion. The first persona is a more agitated and twitchy creature, bouncing back and forth between its various surroundings. ...
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Everchanging Light: String Quartet No. 4
This is my second work written for a collaboration with the Phoenix Art Museum, the fourth string quartet written during my studies at ASU, and my first completed piece of 2010. I was one of four composers selected to write a work that reflected a permanent piece in the museum galleries entitled Mohl ip by James Turrell. ...
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