ENTER[ic] PORTAL

For Orchestra and electronics

2026

Commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra

Performance Resources will be posted here.

BRASS:

Harmon mute overtone series technique:

Technique shown at 4:37

PERCUSSION:

Small superball on tam tam, achieving higher partials:

Massage Gun on various instruments:

See 8:23 for melodica, and 10:50 for Thunder Tube:

On bass drum (using a harder plastic head rather than the foam ball here helps it be loud enough to cut through):

STRINGS:

Airy SOunds

At the opening of the piece I am using airy effects which sometimes have a pitch contour.

Especially in the last technique in the video below, you can hear the pitch of the air change depending on where the muting hand is placed.

At A in my piece, I’m combining the changing of strings shown at the beginning of this video with the movement of the left hand shown at the end of the video.

vertical bowing:

The pressure of the bow really makes a difference in how this technique sounds (air vs. more distortion).

Harmonic pressure glisses

I use both types of pressure/glissandi in my piece, the ordinary harmonic glissando as well as the overpressure glissando.

Olivia shows both techniques below in the video below.

chopping:

I use regular single (hard) chops (15:20 in video), triple chop (23:38), and circular scrape (21:41).

Also vertical bowing techniques already discussed above are found around 21:00 here as well, just before circular scrapes..

Circular scrape should end with a bit of accent, as he does in the video.

Bowing behind bridge:

It will be slightly different pitches for everyone.