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I have been busy applying for a fellowship, and also writing writing writing more music. Here is a new one in the set of dances I\\u2019ve been working on \\u2014 as with the others I\\u2019ve recorded, a rough performance (there\\u2019s a section in the middle that is horrendously hobbled together), but enough to give you the idea. (The score.)

\\nPaul Cantrell\\n
\\nDisembodied Dance (rough version)\\n
\\nPaul Cantrell,\\npiano\\n
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This is probably the weirdest, most abstract thing I\\u2019ve ever written. I love it. But be warned: those of you who found the Dance for Remembering and Forgetting a bit puzzling will be completely freaked out by this one. That is OK. It is your prerogative to be freaked out.

And yes, this is the same set of dances that includes the Cradle Waltz. I promise it will all make sense in the end.

Fascinating fun fact: I thought as I was writing this that it would turn out about three or four minutes long. As I got to the end, I though, \\u201cWell, it\\u2019s run up to five.\\u201d It wasn\\u2019t until I made this recording that I realized how long it actually is, and it took me completely by surprise. It doesn\\u2019t feel over seven minutes long to me \\u2014 just as the third ballade doesn\\u2019t feel under ten. Strange how music alters our sense of the passage of time. Update: I made some substantial practices and made a re-recording, now it\\u2019s five. Was the finished length always in my mind? Moral: composition is as much a mystery to the composer as to everyone else.