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Distorted Reflections and Mirror Images
First Place Winner of 2002 ACS Composition Contest
2003 SCI/ASCAP Student Competition Regional Winner
Premiered July 27, 2002 at ACS New Music Festival at Southwestern University
Video of Premier Performance
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Distorted Reflections and Mirror Images is divided into two independent
movements. The first serves as an introductory movement while the second functions as a
“main” movement. The title comes from the concept of the “reflecting” and “mirroring”
gestures between the flute and cello lines with the piano part often serving as the
mediator, or the “mirror” itself.
The first movement is divided into five sections. The first and third sections are
similar in terms of their slower tempo, softer dynamics, and legato articulations. The
almost identical second and fourth sections are faster and more abrasive while the fifth
and final section has a more flowing watery texture with a sense of winding down.
The concept of the mirror image between the flute and the cello is more obvious in the
second movement. The piano, with its use of various repeated rhythmical patterns, once
again functions as the “mediator” or the “mirror” between the reflecting and mirrored
melodic lines and gestures of the other two instruments. For example, at the start of the
movement, mirrored gestures are created with the flute and cello lines “reflecting” off of
the pitches repeated in the piano part.
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