Third Coast Lullaby is a study about pulses, about those little temporal units that are traditionally associated with stability. One just has to think of a metronome, or a clicking analogue clock: pulses mark and measure time. In Third Coast Lullaby they very slowly begin to drift, though, and while the hierarchy of strong and weak beats loosens, we as listeners are less and less certain, how these markers of time relate. The piece thus enters an almost dreamlike state, where temporal order vanishes as fast as it appears, eventually being replaced almost entirely by ever-transforming waves of sound.
Third Coast Lullaby was written for Third Coast Percussion and inspired by Sean Conner’s, Robert Dillon’s, Peter Martin’s, and David Skidmore’s unique ability to move their playing in a heartbeat from razor-sharp metric precision to almost trance-like ambient flow.
Hans Thomalla
