Exoskeletons
for two violins with b-flat trumpet
ARCUS Collective
Sam Wells, b-flat trumpet
Maya Bennardo, violin
Marc Charles, violin
Human Exoskeletons was commissioned by ARCUS Collective, and premiered in New York, New York in spring 2017. The piece consists of rattling, clacking, and snapping sounds interlaced with sections of hissing and breathing. A warm melody in the violin parts is buried within layers of bitonality and beneath a mercurial solo trumpet part, emerging in fragments.