Vapors
by David Leisner
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music solo viola

SKU: PR.144407210

Composed by David Leisner. Sws. Performance Score. 8 pages. Duration 10 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40721. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.144407210).

ISBN 9781491132371. UPC: 680160681716. 9 x 12 inches.

The two-movement VAPORS was composed in 2008-09, inspired by the composer’s visit to artist Constance DeJong’s studio. Leisner was moved by her large two-paneled Nitrate Painting XVI, and he has written: “You can feel enveloped by it and meditatively immersed in its cloudy or watery atmosphere, depending on how you see it. The more I looked at it, the more it gave me a similar feeling to watching a snowfall in which the snowflakes appear to be falling and rising at the same time. The first movement, Falling, came out of this sensation. Later, when I decided to add a second movement, Floating, I turned the work on its side in my imagination, and now saw a broad expanse of clouds or ocean, with spatial depth that was accompanied by a sense of depth of time. This image spawned the second movement.”.
Vapors was composed in 2008-09 and inspired by a studio visit to my friend, the brilliant artist Constance DeJong, in New Mexico. Looking at her Nitrate Painting XVI, a large two-paneled piece, slightly curved toward the viewer and a little larger than a person, you can feel enveloped by it and meditatively immersed in its cloudy or watery atmosphere, depending on how you see it.The more I looked at it, the more it gave me a similar feeling to watching a snowfall in which the snowflakes appear to be falling and rising at the same time. The first movement, “Falling,” came out of this sensation. Later, when I decided to add a second movement, “Floating,” I turned the work on its side in my imagination, and now saw a broad expanse of clouds or ocean, with spatial depth that was accompanied by a sense of depth of time. This image spawned the second movement.DeJong’s work is often based on precise mathematical systems of nature. I took a cue from that and structured my work on the early numbers of the Fibonacci Series, which is a numerical progression frequently found in nature, where each successive number is the sum of the two preceding numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on.— David Leisner.