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This work was inspired by and utilizes the text of Barbra Jane Reyes’s
captivating first stanza in the poem, The True Color of the Sea. The text
was broken down to its complete IPA formation and used as musical
structures in an abstract, reimagining of the text. The phonemes were
not used in any particular order but used as a collection of sonic samples composition to paint the vivid imagery and evocation of the other senses that the text alludes to.

Barbra Jane Reyes’s The True Color of the Sea

I.
sages’ gardens, ginger root, and siren
glow of mist, green tongues of light
smoke and portents arousing hungers
magnolia-plumed gold moonstone heart
collecting rain in turtleshell hollows
of shoals and shelter, of stones that sing
of coral, of wine, of luminous unnamed

Josiah Tayag Catalan (he/him) is a Filipino-American composer born in New York City and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently, his compositional interests have become centered around the discovering the intersects of musics influenced by traditional, avant-garde, popular, and Southeast Asian musics. He has been a finalist in the Thailand International Competition Festival and has been awarded prizes from NACUSA, the Sacramento State Festival of New American Music, the Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra, the American Prize Composer’s Awards, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Josiah has previously served as a Fromm Foundation Composer Fellow in the Composer’s Conference, and as a Bilinski Fellow at the University of California at Davis. His music has been commissioned and performed internationally by individuals and groups such as the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Earplay, Empyrean Ensemble, Lydian and Arditti String Quartets, the MANA saxophone quartet, The Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra, violinist Miranda Cuckson, percussionist Chris Froh, and soprano Helena Sorokina. His music is published by BabelScores.

Currently, Josiah is teaching as a lecturer in Music Theory, Composition, and World Music at Sacramento State and received his PhD at UC Davis in composition and music theory. He is a tennis and baseball nerd who plays competitively and often travel and hikes around Northern California with his wife and adopted mutt.

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from New Music Festival 02022 Documentation: In The Gallery, released January 24, 2023
Composed by Josiah Tayag Catalan

www.josiahcatalan.com

Performed by Emma Lynn Abrams, voice

Recorded by the administrative assistant on October 16 @ New Zone Gallery, at the third of three EDME New Music Festival shows in Eugene, Oregon, USA
Richard Fenton did a bit of mastering or something

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The Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble performs and commissions underrepresented experimental works in order to open ears and minds. We work to expand the definition of what music can be and what music is capable of achieving, as well as who is capable of achieving it. ... more

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