Monica Chew: Recent Episodes
Monica Chew
Audrey Q. Snyder (http://audreyqsnyder.com/), cello Monica Chew, composer
I wrote Zoom Gloom as part of #GLFCAMGigThruCovid, an artist relief fund started by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music to provide support for performers who lost work due to the pandemic. Just as I am learning to appreciate the tiny joys in life, I am learning to appreciate the minor annoyances as well. Since March I’ve spent about countless hours in Zoom calls and concerts, and doing tech support for the same. I created the audio track from found and solicited voice samples to capture the sense of confusion and comedy that often accompanies these calls, and also the sense of gratitude that I feel for a communication medium that, despite its imperfections, lets us connect in the only safe way we can. In keeping with the theme of communicating from afar, I also wrote the cello part to allow multiple players to play from the same score, at slightly different times.
You can see all of the works commissioned by #GLFCAMGigThruCovid here: https://www.glfcam.com/covid-series-calendar
Recorded live 31 August 2018 in the Oakland on the worst piano in the Bay Area
Monica Chew, piano
Recorded live at Center for New Music on April 19, 2018
Jamie Lee, soprano Monica Chew, pianist and composer
The Crazy Woman (text by Gwendolyn Brooks) The Beauty in the Forest (text by Gwendolyn Brooks) Noblesse Oblige (text by Celeste Turner Wright) there is a girl inside (text by Lucille Clifton)