Playing with Destroying, by Nicholas Patrick Quigley

Playing with Destroying

by Nicholas Patrick Quigley

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1.	Title Sequence Music 04:26		buy track
2.	Music with a Faucet 02:58		buy track
3.	Improvisation on Found Glass 03:32		buy track
4.	Playing with Destroying 03:33		buy track
5.	Improvisation with Walking Sounds 05:44		buy track
6.	Common Music with Beach Sounds 04:02		buy track
7.	Guitar Counterpoints with Natural Sounds 05:27		buy track
8.	Three Destroyed Songs 01:57	info	buy track
9.	I Can See Everything, Forever 04:43	lyrics	buy track
I can see everything, forever a complete map of the universe to find ways in and ways out to discover who we are and be better towards each other while we can
10.	Canna Lilies 11:00	info	buy track
11.	Generative Phasing 02:52		buy track
12.	Viola Quartet No. 1 01:35	info	buy track

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Play became critical as I stepped into my full-time elementary music educator role. Every day, I saw the joy and learning play facilitated for my students and myself as I collaborated with them. Simultaneously, I saw play's healing power, as my students in a large municipality exhibited much more violence in their play than I was used to seeing in classroom observations or student teaching in smaller school districts. Many of my incredible students brought pain into the classroom for many reasons. This largely influenced their creative exploration with instruments and vocalizing. I noticed that when I provided less structured classes for them, there were far fewer moments I initially labeled “interruptions” or “issues” compared to when our lessons were more rigid and standardized (e.g., everybody learns the same song via an Orff-Schulwerk-inspired process). I now see that I failed to provide the outlet they called for. This led me to use my playtime similarly; teaching students who experienced trauma resulted in secondary trauma I had to struggle and cope with. I started to love how weird a song could get just for the sake of making it so. This was me letting out what mangled messes were knotting up inside.

"One Destroyed Song" video: youtu.be/c_u9-banGI8

"Canna Lilies" video: youtu.be/cPICkIB_EVY

"Viola Quartet No. 1" video: youtu.be/3wfK2QJrxws

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released January 3, 2020

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Nicholas Patrick Quigley Fall River, Massachusetts

Nicholas Patrick Quigley (they/he), an integrative composer, sound artist, and educator, specializes in minimalist electro- acoustic chamber music inspired by meditative improvisation. Exploring sound as a rewilding medium and a practice of cultivating personal sustainability, Quigley walks and records soundscapes of Southern New England's nature preservations as part of their creative process. ... more

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