Robert Takahashi Crouch - Jubilee (2021)

I hope you don’t mind, but in lieu of a formal artist statement I thought it might be interesting to just speak to you (obtusely) about what I was thinking when composing work for Jubilee, my new Room40 release. I appreciate how you’ve supported my work for a couple years now; hopefully this will shed some light on why it takes me so long to finish, and why it has taken this aesthetic and conceptual turn. I’ve broken this letter into two parts with the hope that they, along with the music, can serve as fragments of a larger text. Perhaps there might be an opportunity for something useful here.