Jocelyn Morlock: Artemis Sleeps

The album's named after this piece.

This is, like, a two-minute flute piece that she wrote.

Uh, Catherine Chernowski's commissioned it.

Uh, she was creating a series of flute books for young players, and part of these books were, uh...

It was twofold.

Uh, to introduce young players to Canadian music, and also to begin to teach them sort of, like, uh, the beginnings of extended techniques.

And, um, this piece plays with color trills, sort of like, you know, just variations of the same note but using different fingerings.

And it's, it's called Artemis Sleeps, uh, 'cause it's about, it's about the moon.

But it's, it's not so much about the moon, uh, or the waxing and waning of the moon, but rather how the world responds to it, you know? And again, so it's, like, the...

It has this sort of nocturnal theme that, uh, that was also going through Vespertine.

This idea of, you know, um, sort of lovers meeting or, you know, it's the idea of, like, you know, uh, nocturnal animals frolicking.

You get this sort of, like, that sense of, uh, nocturnal activity going through, through the piece.

So it's less about, you know, Artemis herself, but how the world reacts to her and to her, you know, and to the waxing and waning of the moon.

So it- that's a, it's a, it's, it's a very sort of sweet, compact little piece.