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Michael Genese: The Highest Arm

From Contemporary Sounds 2026 Recorded live in performance at Denison University on February 4, 2026 Timothy Hagen, flute Chris Faur, visuals Program note from the composer The Highest Arm is structured around 2020's slow invitations to an old reality, amidst daily protests calling to abolish the old normal, eradicate the oppressive systems this country was built upon, and create a reality where everyone can thrive. Starting June 18, 2020, every Thursday for a year and a half, a march in NYC drew attention to the state of emergency Black trans women are experiencing– over 350 trans women of color murdered in 2020 alone. This group of activists and organizers is known as The Stonewall Protests. In 2020 and especially towards the end of October, we found ourselves marching past the newly reopened West Village restaurants, and the near-entirely white, gentrified crowds dining outside. A full drumline, flags from Nigeria, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and more whipped through the air. Chants with the beat were fed through a PA system with responses yelled out behind our masks, as many watching from their dinner tables felt their identity and privilege attacked. We were left with an incredibly intricate web of perceived realities and futures that autumn, and I hope for this piece to provide a snapshot of that feeling. In the electronics track, you can a drumline from the actual Thursday protest, crowds, and violins and violas mimicking the popular graph of 2020 covid cases with a large peak and slow descent. There are also samples of pouring rain, the tambourine I played each week as it's taken out of my bag, and an Italian wine menu from a place in the village, mispronounced for a waitstaff trying to feign politeness.