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Swarms of "Pests" - JACK Workshop 14 Nov 2025

Thanks so much to the JACK Quartet for doing a workshop reading of this piece with me, as part of the JACK Quartet Readings provided by Mannes College of Music at The New School. ________________________________________________________________________________ Program Note: ________________________________________________________________________________ Colonization is defined by Merriam-Webster as the following: 1 : an act or instance of colonizing: such as a : the establishing of a colony : subjugation of a people or area especially as an extension of state power b : migration to and settlement in an inhabited or uninhabited area c i. biology : the spread and development of an organism in a new area or habitat ii. medical : the presence and multiplication of a microorganism (such as a bacterium) in or on a host or an inanimate object or surface d : the act or practice of appropriating something that one does not own or have a right to 2 : the state of being colonized : subjugation by a foreign power Insects are known to form colonies, to infest, or (in recent years) to be invasive species that damage local ecosystems. Despite the word ‘colony’ having closest ties to the behavior of colonists - in that they are migrating, appropriating, and committing mass subjugation of a people - it is often those who are being colonized that are treated as if they are pests (conversations about “illegal” immigrants in the U.S., the tendency of gentrified places to be rendered “clean” of what used to inhabit them, etc.). In Swarms of “Pests" there is a conversation between material that naturally exists fluidly with its own independence and harsh, static imitations of that material - as if the music itself is being stifled and appropriated upon. In five (largely) improvisatory movements, this piece is an illustration of how it feels to be subjugated and to thrive despite that subjugation.