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the enormous room for string quartet and live processing [w/ score]

the enormous room for string quartet and live processing (2026) Composed by Thomas Little // Performed by the JACK quartet During World War I, American poet and painter Edward Estlin Cummings, who had volunteered for ambulance duty, was detained by the French government on suspicion of espionage activities after his friend, William Slater Brown, had a letter intercepted and misinterpreted by the French censors. They spent time in a makeshift internment facility in La Ferté Macé in Normandy, which Cummings called “The Enormous Room” in the 1922 book of the same title. Situated halfway between memoir and fictionalization, Cummings-as-protagonist displays an oblique relationship with reality. After charting the events leading to his incarceration, sealed by his unwillingness to express hate for the Germans, Cummings spends the central chapters of the book describing the characters he meets in The Enormous Room against the backdrop of incarceration’s daily grind. Cummings’ uniquely evocative imagery (including liberal use of French phrases to heighten the sense of alienation), as well as the ways in which the characters in The Enormous Room meshed with the historical weight of the string quartet as a medium, led me to create this piece. This was my dissertation piece for my PhD in Composition at SUNY Buffalo, the capstone of a five-year program where I studied with Jonathan Golove, Robert Carl, Tiffany M. Skidmore, Nina Young, and Ming Tsao.