John Eaton's Mass for six voices and instruments with electronic processing received its world premiere on March 1st, 1998 with Carmen Tellez conducting soloists from the Contemporary vocal ensemble n Auer Hall of the School of Music at Indiana University. It was immediately hailed by the critics as a work of fascinating emotiional expression and idiosyncratic complexity. According the the composer:
"The Kyrie begins with a single note and its overtones, a kind of ground of being. The first soprano enters a 1/4 tone sharp against this, implying that the human soul is a misfit in cretin, if yo like. After a plea to Christ, the Kyrie returns. The ground reaches up to incorporate the 1/4 step, but the soprano moves up another 1/4 steps to maintain the dissonance. The second part of the Kyrie is an anguished plea for salvation.
"In the Gloria, through amplified vocal clicks and percussion, a picture emerges of all the atoms of Creation bubbling up t worship the Creator."
Minimal and emotionally evocative compositions for solo piano in the Ryuichi Sakamoto vein from Cincinnati's Tristan Eckerson. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 18, 2020