Secret Forest (2025)
two performance options:
1. clarinet, 2 percussion (1. glockenspiel, crotales, 2. vibraphone), stereo backing track
2. clarinet, 1 percussion (vibraphone, glockenspiel), stereo backing track

amplification plus reverb optional

“In the woods we return to reason and faith.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

This contemplative work was inspired by several hikes with my family through the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park. The backing track includes field recordings courtesy of Gordon Hempton, The Sound Tracker®. Excerpted from his Hoh Rainforest recording One Square Inch of Silence.