Run On, Spin Out - Louis Raymond-Kolker [DIGITAL]

Run On, Spin Out was written to mimic a friend of the composer, in the way that he seamlessly moves from one topic to another, and goes on chains of tangents that take you far away from where you started in no time at all. This plays out as a musical run-on sentence bouncing around in a small room, turning over on itself, echoing, and eventually dissipating.

Genre: Marimba (4-mallet) | # of Players: 1
Series: N/A
Level: Medium Advanced | Duration: 6:20

Instrumentation
5-octave Marimba

Program Notes
Anthony McIntosh commissioned Run On, Spin Out in the summer of 2019, right when I was starting to figure out how his brain works. When Anthony talks, he seamlessly moves from one topic to another, and goes on chains of tangents that take you far away from where you started in no time at all. In Run On, Spin Out, I tried to mimic him, eliding 5 mini-themes into one moto perpetuo burst of music. But rather than moving on to a new topic (as Anthony might), I imagined this musical run-on sentence bouncing around in a small room, turning over on itself, echoing, and eventually dissipating.

– L.R.K.