Modes (Of Resistance) by Ben Leeds Carson published on 2019-12-17T00:48:36Z Modes (Of Resistance), for viola solo with two violins and cello. Premiered April 2017, recorded August 2018 by the Del Sol Quartet Charlton Lee: Viola Ben Kreith: violin Rick Shinozaki: violin Kathryn Bates: cello Modes (of resistance)—which I also sometimes call ‘modes and values’, after Messaien’s work of the same name—is a string quartet, but also a solo work for viola accompanied by strings. It is a work concerned with some unusual, marginal possibilities of rhythm, and with some relationships between noise and counterpoint, but also a classical : there is a Da Capo Adagio, and a “Minuet and Trio” at the end. Its ‘modes’ are both ‘types of melody’ and approaches to self-presentation; its values are both note-values and ‘interests or priorities’. It tries to resist not a specific kind of authority or regime but something more compelling and troublesome, something intangible but discrete, something in the law of language, something in me. Contains tracks MODE 1 - Del Sol Quartet - 2 Aug 2018 by Ben Leeds Carson published on 2019-12-17T00:51:57Z MODE 2 - Del Sol Quartet - 2 Aug 2018 by Ben Leeds Carson published on 2019-12-17T00:51:56Z MODE 3 - Del Sol Quartet - 2 Aug 2018 by Ben Leeds Carson published on 2019-12-17T00:51:54Z MODES 4 & 5 - Del Sol Quartet - 2 Aug 2018 by Ben Leeds Carson published on 2019-12-17T00:51:52Z