Title: Trance Mechanics
Commission: 2011
Completed: 2014
Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano
Premiere Location: New York, NY
Premiere Ensemble: Lost Dog New Music Ensemble
Notes:

Jeremy Podgursky’s music has been described as soulful, vibrant, emotionally intense, imaginative, passionate, joyful, optimistic, dreamy, playful, and otherworldly. The palpable immediacy of his compositions is a remnant of his years of playing in indie rock bands, yet he composes with technical precision and a strong awareness of the classical canon. Jeremy often crafts his narratives from the quantum field where musical events are presented as memories, premonitions, and alternate realities. He is just as likely to find musical inspiration in literature, film, and dance as he is the sound of the subway or a broken HVAC unit. Jeremy is fascinated with the fragmentation of modern consciousness due to the influence of technology; this concept reveals itself in his music via repetitive, short-circuiting motifs that contrast his strong sense of lyricism. Although his primary focus is always emotional, Jeremy’s interest in musical architecture is just as likely to involve real-time construction as it does playful demolition.

A native of Louisville, KY, Jeremy Podgursky’s music has been featured in venues and festivals in the United States, Europe and Japan. His compositions have been performed, premiered, and read by groups such as Alarm Will Sound, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Indiana University New Music Ensemble, Contemporaneous, Present Music, Square Peg Round Hole, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Inscape, Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, Holographic, Peabody Modern Orchestra, and NewEar New Music Ensemble. Some of his awards and honors come from the American Academy of Arts And Letters, Fromm Music Foundation Commission, Copland House Residency Award, Indiana University JSoM Dean’s Prize, Finale/American Composers Forum/Eighth Blackbird, Mizzou New Music Festival, American Composers Orchestra/Earshot, Northridge Prize for Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute, and 1st place in the National SCI/ASCAP Commissioning Competition.