Dominick DiOrio

L'Eau Changeante

An Organic Variation

• Instrumentation: saxophone, trumpet, and piano
• Completed: 2006
• Duration: 7 minutes
• Audio:
  • L'Eau Changeante
    
    TROICA
    

    D. Kim Dunnick, trumpet
    Steven Mauk, alto saxophone
    Diane Birr, piano

• Program Note:

  L’Eau Changeante was inspired by a class in Vocal Pedagogy with Professor Carol McAmis at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.  In the class, I was introduced to the work of Masaru Emoto – a Japanese scientist whose research centers around the phenomenon of water crystals.  

  I was fascinated by this possibility of water being an organic and responsive medium.  Our bodies and our lives are made up of this life-giving substance, but how much do we really understand it?  Water vibrates with sound – it can be seen in Tibetan singing bowls – the tides on our planet are affected by the gravitational pull of our moon. How then does music affect our vibrations--our water--in our body?  

  The music itself is what I call an “organic variation” – it is seven minutes of continually evolving music that ebbs and flows from a few core seeds – here the interval of the seventh and the related second cluster – each section is distinct, but related to the rest, growing out of the music before it. 

  L’Eau Changeante, or Changing Water, was written at the request of Dr. Steven Mauk and Dr. Kim Dunnick, and their pianist-collaborator Dr. Diane Birr, to seek to expand the limited repertoire for trumpet and alto saxophone.  All are professors and former teachers at Ithaca College.  I am honored to have written a piece for such talented and respected performers.

• Performances:
  • September 23, 2007 (Premiere)
    L’eau Changeante for Saxophone, Trumpet, and Piano
    TROIKA: Steven Mauk, alto saxophone; Kim Dunnick, trumpet, and Diane Birr, piano
    Ithaca College Faculty Recital Series
    Ithaca College - Hockett Family Recital Hall – Ithaca, NY 
  • April 10, 2010
    L’Eau Changeante for Trumpet, Alto Saxophone, and Piano
    Colby Cooman’s Junior Recital
    Colby Cooman, trumpet; Avis Romm, piano; Ben Kenis, alto saxophone
    Music Building Auditorium – University of Illinois – Urbana, IL 
  • November 5, 2010
    L’Eau Changeante for alto saxophone, trumpet, and piano
    Faculty Recital – Lone Star College-Montgomery
    Kris Chapman, trumpet; Aaron Martinez, saxophone; Dominick DiOrio, piano
    Lone Star College-Montgomery Theater – Conroe, TX 
  • October 26, 2017
    New Music Series
    University of Indianapolis - Indianapolis, IN