I wrote this piece for the Ursuline Academy’s Strings Class. It utilizes a system of flash cards held up by the director to indicate which sections to play. In each section there are different boxes for students to play through (they can play through all of them, or just stick with one or two boxes depending on their skill level). The harmony is simple and loose as to be aesthetic within a low latency context. The low latency actually facilitates smooth transitions between the textures of different sections, as students will stop and start playing at different times. Both traditional and extended techniques, pitched and non pitched, are utilized to reduce some of the tuning issues, as well as to allow students to explore different colors and gestural expressiveness on their instruments.
Link to the score and parts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oLBqz6wOyGBjA2tlA_HyA2KvgPDKd9E5?usp=sharing
The class only had a handful classes left when I was commissioned, they only meet once a week for 45 minutes, so while they enjoyed experimenting with it, they were not able to fully perform the piece.
Here is the instructional video, geared toward middle/high school.
This piece was written for strings, but I would happy to collaborate on writing for other ensembles.