waft (2022)
for Warp Trio, commissioned through The Walden School Faculty Commissioning Project
Performed by Mikael Darmanie (piano) and Clara Warnaar (percussion)
Close your eyes and imagine the smell of a hardware store. Breathe in. Breathe out.
waft explores the memories held by smells, as well as the personal and cultural associations prompted by certain scents. Performers move through a graphic score describing approximately 80 smells of varied degrees of enjoyability (according to popular opinion). How one reacts to a certain scent is a deeply personal response—waft asks how these responses might be sonified in order to create a common language of scent between two improvisers.
This piece was commissioned through The Walden School Faculty Commissioning Project and premiered at the Walden School Young Musicians Program (Dublin, New Hampshire) in July 2022.
Find more about Warp Trio: warptrio.com
And Clara Warnaar: clarawarnaar.com
And the Walden School: waldenschool.org