DePaul Ensemble 20+ Performs "Emergence" by Aditya Sharma
Enjoy a moment from DePaul Ensemble 20+ featuring a work entitled "Emergence" composed by Aditya Sharma, from their March 12, 2020 performance in Gannon Concert Hall.
Aditya Sharma is a composer/pianist from India currently pursuing a master’s degree in music theory/composition at DePaul University where his teachers include Dr. Oznat Netzer, Dr. C.W.Jones, and Dr. Seung-Won Oh.
Notes from the Composer: “Emergence” is a commentary on the deeply polarized nature of sociopolitical realities that define our current existential paradigm. An unceasing, ever escalating conflict is threatening our collective commitment to moral dignity and gradually pushing us towards a realm that is imperceptive to human virtue.
In choosing to embody this evolution through music, the idea of emergence i.e., the emergence of an epoch that is inscrutable because of its hidden complexities, serves a common link between the two and is slowly transformed throughout the work as a way of representing an undetermined point of arrival. Additionally, in creating a form that could effectively carry this narrative, I have incorporated aspects of Hindustani (Indian) and Western performance models to create a musical space that is malleable in its capacity to accommodate both strict and quasi-improvisatory ideas.