Fulfilling Penumbra: an audio drama

by Derick Evans

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more

1.	Act I: Penumbra, for twenty players 03:30	buy track
2.	Act I: A Short Phone Call 02:00	buy track
3.	Act I: Working on Penumbra 02:30	buy track
4.	Act I: The Radio and a Nap 02:00	buy track
5.	Act II: Dreaming In Sound 03:30	buy track
6.	Act II: Another Short Phone Call 02:00	buy track
7.	Act II: Off on a Walk 02:30	buy track
8.	Act II: The Radio Again and Another Nap 02:00	buy track
9.	Act III: The Timer Alarm 03:30	buy track
10.	Act III: A Short Conversation 02:00	buy track
11.	Act III: Penumbra Unplugged 02:30	buy track
12.	Act III: The Final Routine 02:00	buy track

about

ABOUT THE WORK

"Fulfilling Penumbra: An audio drama" is a blending of music, dialogue, and sound design. In three acts, it depicts a short moment in time, beginning with a composer in graduate school sitting at home. He is listening to a vinyl pressing of his dissertation entitled “Penumbra” that is still in-progress, and he is unpleased. After a short phone call, he sits down at a keyboard to continue working on the piece. The mundane soon turns to the mystical as this instance of self-doubt leads to revelation.

Important to the work is its unique three-act structure: Act I and Act II overlap exactly to create Act III. A defining feature of Act III is its incorporation of “phase cancellation,” which is the silence that results when two identical audio samples with opposite polarities overlap. In the final act, the select sounds that are erased by phase cancellation reveal the presence of previously unnoticed sounds from Acts I & II.

"Fulfilling Penumbra," in all its layers, is an ode to the creative process and the triumph of the creative spirit. It is a toast to new beginnings: the end of one phase, and the start of another.

credits

released April 18, 2019

This work was created in Buffalo, NY in 2019 — composed, recorded, and edited in its entirety in two small rooms in the composer’s home.

license

about

Derick Evans Buffalo, New York

derickevans.com

contact / help

Contact Derick Evans

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Derick Evans, you may also like:

living in memory of something sweet
by dreamTX

Undeniable melodies swim up from beneath layers of distortion and effects, making this a psych-pop winner. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 31, 2023
go to album
Trophic Asynchrony
by Adam Stafford

A fascinating electronic exploration of nature, boasting prismatic songs that radiate color and light. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 1, 2021
go to album
Constellation
by Old Amica

Simple yet experimental bedroom folk plays has the dirgey, pensive feel of very early Sufjan Stevens records. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 10, 2019
go to album
Limp Wristed
by Fyrrh

Dream pop jammers that skip from psych to alternative to indie pop and back again. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 19, 2018
go to album
Riposte
by Buke and Gase

featured on Bandcamp Radio Aug 18, 2015
go to album
EP
by Holm

The duo of Sascha Höfer and Bertram Kolar command an "island of sound" on their debut EP, contrasting warm hooks with turbulent dynamics. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 16, 2022
go to album
Old Friends New Friends
by Nils Frahm

featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 30, 2021
go to album