{"product_id":"punctum","title":"Punctum","description":"\u003cspan class=\"greytext-norm\"\u003efor string quartet\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"greytext-norm\"\u003e2009 \/ revised 2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"greytext-norm\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eworkshopped in 2009 and 2010 with the Hudson and Franklin Quartets | first \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"greytext-norm\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eperformance at the Greenwich House, NYC (April 2010) | \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003erevised in 2013 for the Brentano Quartet at Princeton University \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"greytext-norm\"\u003e8’30″\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"style-four\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePunctum \u003c\/em\u003eis essentially an exercise in nostalgia, inspired by Roland Barthes’ description of the “unexpected” in photographs and in particular by his extended description of the elusive “Winter Garden” photo in his 1980 book \u003cem\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/em\u003e. Through modular sequences strung together out of context, the piece explores a way of saturating the palette with classicism while denying it form, and of disturbing the legibility of a harmonic progression in order to reinforce it later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne could also say the piece is about the sensation of a particular secondary dominant in Bach’s \u003cem\u003eSt. Matthew Passion\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caroline Shaw Editions","offers":[{"title":"score + parts + mp3","offer_id":375791849,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0273\/1909\/products\/vintage-old-wallpaper-pattern1.jpg?v=1382898797","url":"https:\/\/carolineshaw.com\/products\/punctum","provider":"CAROLINE SHAW EDITIONS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}