Spiral Resonance
for wind symphony (2000)

Intended as a piece for young people to enjoy playing, Spiral Resonance derives its title from the sensation of a kind of spirally onwards, upwards and outwards experienced in the opening and closing sections of the piece. Its overall form is arch-like about the central slow section. The second and penultimate sections exert a different kind of buoyant energy and rely on colour and ostinato rhythms. The C pedal point clearly anchors these sections in relation to the more harmonically fluid sections that occupy the other episodes that comprise the piece.

© 2001 Philip Bracanin