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UNDERCURRENT

Instrumentation: cello and piano

Duration: 15 minutes

Composed: 2013

Premiere: September 26, 2013 by Laura Metcalf (cello) and Gregg Kallor (piano) at SubCulture NYC

Joshua Roman, cello Gregg Kallor, piano music composed by Gregg Kallor the second movement starts at 4:36 the third movement starts at 10:47 performed at SubCulture, New York City - June 11, 2015 http://www.GreggKallor.com

Sometimes there's a disconnect between the things we feel and the things we say; Undercurrent explores where the two meet. The simmering line that the cello and piano pass back and forth is always churning away just under the surface, like the fraught subtext that sometimes attends our most intimate conversations — until it bubbles up and explodes. (Some relationships are, um... dynamic.) The middle movement evokes that fragile place of unspoken intimacy — where a glance, a gesture, a touch can mean everything.