Andrew Watts: D.M.A. Final Project Presentation

Adhocracies, for chamber orchestra with dual soprano soloists, is Andrew Watts's D.M.A. Final Project Presentation.

Over the past five years, I have been interested in the perceptual transitions between intelligibility and ambiguity with language in music. With Adhocracies, I wanted to attempt a much larger scale transition between the states of unintelligible chatter, to ambiguous speech, to (finally) articulated prose. Adhocracies has become a vessel where I could address these language/speech procedures in the same context as several other compositional devices I have been developing concurrently. — Andrew Watts