Forbidden Love– all the things you aren’t supposed to do to string instruments. My first year of college I wandered into a class called Creative Musicianship. One of the first assignments was to write a short piece using a musical instrument in an unusual nontraditional way. I thought “what?” So when SO asked me to write them a piece using the four instruments of the string quartet, it was the second time this challenge was posed. The beautiful thing about SO is that they are so open, so collaborative, full of adventure and can-do attitude. Together we discovered and drew out beautiful ethereal and crunchy sounds from this iconic quartet of instruments. In the process I developed a very personal new language (boings, szhings, hammering, and more.)Forbidden Loveis dedicated to Jane Heirich – that wonderful teacher who in that life-changing class first asked me to step outside the box.
