Released May 29, 2026

About the release

Grid and Gradient presents a six-movement realization of Morgan Evans-Weiler’s open-score work, performed by the composer on violin and electronics with J. P. A. Falzone on celeste and two pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart.

The music moves between clarity and obscurity, lyric line and harmonic haze. Rather than advancing in a fixed direction, its lines drift, return, and subtly reconfigure, opening a world at once lucid and hidden—precise and unstable. The duo treats the score as a visual field for collaborative navigation, allowing the performers to find, follow, and lose one another through a space that remains structured, searching, and continuously in flux.

Its microtonal language is heard less as a fixed tuning system than as a fluid field of shadings and neutral intervals: the quarter-tone displacement of the pianos expands the pitch space, while the violin moves through it as a continuum. Small cells and brief chordal sequences become sites of continuous variation, as the duo traces a landscape of fragile alignments, subtle pitch inflections, and shifting relational focus.

About the artists:

Morgan Evans-Weiler and J. P. A. Falzone have been working together since meeting in 2015. They have performed together as a duo and as part of the composer-performer collective, Ordinary Affects. Evans-Weiler and Falzone have both composed numerous pieces, individually and collaboratively, for themselves as a duo, with a focus on microtonality and music of extended duration. They have performed in churches, museums, galleries, and artist spaces as a duo and their music has been released by labels such as Another Timbre and Sawyer Editions. 

Credits:

Composition by Morgan Evans-Weiler.
Performed by Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin, electronics) and J.P.A. Falzone (piano, 1/4-tone piano, celeste).
Recorded by J.P.A. Falzone at SUNY Buffalo.
Liner notes by Luke Martin.
Mastered by Luke Damrosch.
Album design by Kristofer Svensson.
Artwork: Design of flowers by Ogata Kōrin in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Tracklist:

1. Grid and Gradient 1 09′09′′
2. Grid and Gradient 2 07′29′′
3. Grid and Gradient 3 10′17′′
4. Grid and Gradient 4 07′48′′
5. Grid and Gradient 5 06′18′′
6. Grid and Gradient 6 12′10′′