Title: Rock Talk
Year completed: 2026
Duration: 18 minutes
Instrumentation: Piano and percussion, with speaking parts for both players
Credits: Commissioned by the SHHH!! Ensemble, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts
Premiere: Planned for 2026
Program note:
“Think back to your first encounters with rocks, as a little kid. What would those rocks say, if they could talk? Grown-up musicians still love to play with rocks. Now they’re in our instruments - shiney metal things that we strike with piano hammers, or hit with drum sticks. Now we use them to make sound waves vibrate - to make the air shake. What would those rocks say, if they could talk?”