Glenn will be giving the Keynote at 10AM on April 5, 2024. “Growing Bigger in the Bigness of the Whole, When Nature Goes Beyond our Control” – Join in person or on the zoom! About the Conference The Totality Conference offers an opportunity to contemplate the meaning of the eclipse from as many perspectives as…
Join us for an exploration of the Hunger Stones that carve centuries of the low and high water marks along the Elbe River. Composer Glenn McClure, working with Czech hydrologist Libor Elledor, has composed music that rises from centuries of climate data. Glenn will share the story of the Hunger Stones and his creative process…
Performance on January 20, 2024 by fivebyfive at the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester, NY.
The melodic content of “Totality” is drawn from the sonification of “duration” data that shows the varying time intervals of totality during an eclipse at selected locations along its path. Sonification is the mathematical translation of numerical data points into musical pitches and rhythms. This melody, drawn from the data describing its path, provides the unifying motifs that recur throughout the piece.
I’ve been thinking about this idea for a long time. As a person with a disability, I have often ignored the daily struggles, the obstacles invisible to others, and the fatigue of trying to be an artist/musician. I have always wanted to be a “good composer” first, not the “composer with a disability.” I am…
Big artistic projects – like Democracy – always take longer to come to fruition than we like. They both attempt to marry big ideas of what it means to be human within the history, the circumstances, the challenges, and the nuts and bolts opportunities each day. Before COVID, my dear friend and artistic director Helen…