Intimate Strangers
By James Dever
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Released 6/6/2016.
Duration: 11:14.
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Artist commentary:
Intimate Strangers was written in the Spring of 2014 and premiered in May of 2014, performed by James Dever.
The piece is written for a large multi-percussion set up featuring a vibraphone facing away from the performer, scratched tambourine, a wine bottle, bass drum edges, and various other standard percussion instruments.
Intimate Strangers is about the struggles of abuse and mental illness and the cognitive dissonance of someone very close being, at the same time, very distant and disconnected.