He acknowledges that “scale and intensity” matter and that his “original idea was to create an opera complex model that demonstrates Wagnerian dimensions.” iv Indeed, he has taken Wagner to task in terms of scale, writing music for impressive numbers: Trillium J, for instance, is composed for 12 singers, 12 solo instrumentalists, dancers, Centurion guards, choir, computer music, light/image projection crew, virtual technical crew, constructed fantasy environments, and orchestra. The five-act Trillium L is currently in the works and will be followed by two more three-act operas, two two-act operas, and a final opera requiring triple the performance forces as the others.īraxton emphasizes in the notes that accompany the box set release of Trillium J: The Non-Unconfessionables that the operas may be performed “with the largest instrumentation that is possible, or the smallest instrumentation that’s available (or any instrumentation that strikes one’s fancy-from an orchestra consisting of ten billion musicians (or more) all the way to a reductionist performance that consists of only 12 ‘bricks and a bucket’ (smile).” He explains that “as a person who has no money I would as such program ‘having no money’ (as a proposition) into the system model qualities’ as an axiom for composite application.” iiiĭespite this fiscally pragmatic axiomatic proposition, Braxton carefully composes for his desired orchestra. So far he has completed six for a total of 18 individual acts: Trillium A (1 act), Trillium M (1 act), Trillium R (4 acts), Trillium E (4 acts), Trillium J (4 acts), and Trillium X (4 acts). These acts are grouped in bundles of one to five and lettered.
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Since at least 1980, “Anthony ‘Monteverdi Boy’ Braxton” ii has been passionately working on the Trillium Opera Complex, an ambitious series of 12 operas comprising 36 autonomous one-act works.
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