Resumption is a violin, drums, and piano composition inspired by the flood in South Carolina last year. The trio attempts to capture the musical personality of the storm from early rain to recovery using the diverse expression of our instruments.
The drums is the storm itself: inevitable, dark, and looming. The violin plays the indecisive rain falling fast, sideways, and variable. The piano is more melodic, giving voice to a metaphorical flood victim. It's calm and reasonable at first, then increasingly sporadic, finishing with the calm once again. The chords are rich and inconsistent, but all within the same key referring to a kind of constancy.
The piece progresses through three sections representing portions of the storm. The first is repetitive and forward-moving, embodied by a drum line reflecting the inevitability of the storm. The second is anxious and unsure: the drummer plays without following any meter. The last is somber and reflective, but with the same melodic line as the first section.
Resumption is one musical interpretation of the storm's lasting effect on a flood victim. It played in parts under South Carolina Public Radio's hour-long flood anniversary retrospective linked below.
Violinist: Daniel Machado
Drummer: Steve Sancho
Composer/Pianist: Cooper McKim