DISCRETE STRUCTURES
BY MARC MELLITS

Movements:
1) Circle Structure
2) Red Structure
3) Survival Structure
4) Gold Structure
5) Blue Structure
6) Tight Structure
7) Clock Structure
8) Liquid Structure
9) Shiny Structure
10) Square Structure

Key people in recording : 
Marc Mellits, composer
Laura Lentz, flute
Tze-Wen (Julia) Lin, piano
Recorded by Marc Webster / Blue on Blue Recording Studio

About the work:
This is a new work by Marc Mellits, finished in September, 2024 as part of a consortium of wind players of which I was lead commissioner.  This work exists in other versions for oboe, clarinet, or soprano saxophone and piano or string quartet.

Program notes from Marc Mellits:
Discrete Structures is a set of connected miniatures, each sharing musical material and each movement completing each other.  Sometimes they complete a movement that has already happened, sometimes they complete it before it even begins.  However, they are all based on the same musical material, and as I was writing each movement that material became more and more clear, completely on its own.  I wanted to create a sound world that connected to itself almost serendipitously, creating connections throughout the work.  The music of each movement on their own are very structured, the building blocks of each are all manipulations of each other, keeping the entire piece connected.  Some structures depict events that happened to me during the summer of 2024, for example, III: Survival Structure, inspired by an encounter with a homeless girl reading philosophy in the center of Bucharest, Romania; stay strong, tomorrow is another day.  Other structures compare similar material however, from different perspectives: a wooden clock turns into gold then melts into a liquid.  Serendipity can sometimes be joyous or can sometimes give pause.  Events happen seemingly on the own but often have an impact, from moment to moment, measure to measure. - Marc Mellits