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forgetting by Lila Meretzky

2021-22 iQ Test Scholar Lila Meretzky's "forgetting" Commissioned by icarus Quartet for the 2021-22 iQ Tests Premiered on April 24, 2022 at the Community Concerts at Second series in Baltimore, MD Christopher Shannon, director Recorded on October 9, 2022 by Ben Giroux at the Peabody Conservatory Filmed on October 9, 2022 by Ben Giroux at Kap2ure Studio kap2ure.com/studio About the piece: “I recently read the novel Fight Night by the Canadian author Miriam Toews. In it, the child heroine’s wisecracking grandmother delivers an aphorism which has stuck with me. She says that “to be alive means full body contact with the absurd” (156). I had finished writing forgetting before I started reading the novel, but I see this quote as an entry point to the piece. When I started writing, picking a direction for the piece was difficult. There are endless musical possibilities for keyboards and percussion, especially as the four members of the icarus Quartet are virtuosos. So, I bypassed that question entirely, and the challenge of the piece went from choosing the so-called best possible musical idea to making all the ideas coexist, in order to bring the calmest and most contemplative gestures into “full body contact” with the most athletic and riotous ones. In forgetting, opposing forces collide in ways I hope are fun and tender, if not a little absurd. I am yet undecided on whether this piece should actually be called “remembering.” Maybe you will have an opinion after you hear it. Many thanks to icarus for their insights and feedback along the way, and for creating an opportunity for us to be together and experience live music!” —Lila Meretzky About the composer: Lila Meretzky is a composer, educator, and visual artist born and raised in New York City. She works primarily in chamber, vocal, electronic, and electroacoustic mediums, as well as in music for dance, film, and installation. Her work is often concerned with (the warping of) memory and language, and subjective experiences of time. Recent and ongoing collaborations include new works for the icarus Quartet, Omer Quartet, and the Yale Philharmonia, and for the dance companies New Dialect, X-Contemporary Dance, and the Nashville Ballet. Lila is a graduate of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, where she co-founded a new music concert series called A Humming Under My Feet. She is currently working on her MM in composition at the Yale School of Music. Her other pursuits include performing as a singer and pianist, and making noise on her laptop and accordion. As a critic, her writings have been published on the arts blog ArtsNash and she has been featured on the radio at WXNA Nashville. As an educator, she has taught composition at the Walden School in Dublin, New Hampshire and with Yale’s Music in Schools Initiative, and musicianship at the W.O. Smith Music School in Nashville, Tennessee. Paper collage is her primary visual medium, and her work has been featured in Off Latch Press’ inaugural Off Latch Zine. Lila’s music is self-published through OVNDROYT Music. About iQ Tests: “iQ Tests: a Call for Collaborations” is an annual program that gives two winners the opportunity to collaborate on a new piece with the quartet through an entire season, be featured in live performances, and subsequently recorded with professional audio and video. iQ will takes each of their Scholars through the detailed collaboration process that is behind all of their new works, provide them with the chance to learn how to work with an ensemble, and develop a professional relationship beginning with the presentation and documentation of a new work for pianos and percussion. For more information, including the free application, visit: https://icarusquartet.org/iq-tests