Given the current political discourse about women’s roles in society and politics, and how one candidate has disparraged unmarried women as “crazy cat ladies” my wife, Rebecca Bratspies, encouraged me to share the audio of a work I wrote a decade and a half ago:

This work was awarded as one of the best Solo Flute works of the year by the American Flute Foundation and is published by BRS Music.

The work is supposed to be humorous, as it asks the performer to grunt, growl, and hiss as well as using extended techniques ranging from simply blowing soundlessly through the instrument to playing multiphonics (the technique of fingering and overblowing to cause the flute to produce more than one note at the same time.)

This live performance is by Chistine Perea of Random Access Music.