Zeynep Toraman
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This piece presents one of my first attempts to work with direct musical quotations. The counterpointal writing  in the middle of the piece, very loosely based on a shot passage from Bach (from the short G minor minuet), although muted, serves as the piece’s climactic moment. In my reworking of this fragment, I tried to discover an entire universe from within its traces: I was interested in building a narrative that is simple yet containing multitudes — a straightforward but obscured plot. The beginning and the end fell into place around this  moment, frozen in time and out of focus, almost too-large to be fully grasped. And the hyperreal stitched-togetherness of it all come together to isolate moments of proximity/intimacy/immediacy.