Essential Relaxing Classical Hits

Description:

Essential Relaxing Classical Hits is a piece about the destruction of the self in the twenty-first-century. We live in a world in which our selves are constantly manipulated, commodified and sold. Corporations mine our personalities and preferences, turning our selves into profit; we are kept in a state of constant anxiety and envy, coerced into dogmatic cycles of self-assessment and self-optimization. Jia Tolentino has described the self as ‘capitalism’s last natural resource’, and like all natural resources, the self is a precious, finite thing.

Essential Relaxing Classical Hits is written in three ‘volumes’, which can be performed as a set (from Vol. 1 to Vol. 3), or independently.

Full Scoring:

Soprano

Saxophones x2 (Sopranino, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone)
Trombone doubling Alto Trombone
Piano doubling Keyboard, Toy Piano
Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar
Percussion