Five lacrosse balls (feedback in analysis would be appreciated)

This should be treated as a sister piece to event Horizon. If not, A continuation of the story . As much as I don't wanna expose myself, I feel like the story behind This is very integral to what you're gonna be hearing, especially with a bunch of source material from event horizon.

Five lacrosse balls is a story built on many experiences where I felt like I have been living in a fever dream from foreseeing certain relationships into people and having a whole entire room build up with a ripple effect of the US anthem. I find pure solace on the fixation of a random tangible object something that will keep you grounded through all of life's troubles. Yes, in many ways like most of my other works to some degree is a personal narrative

Five Lacrosse Balls.pdf

Hello

This is a piece I really like and find fascinating.

The composition is superb, and the way you break up the sections with what sound like interjections is really appealing.

It’s also fantastic to see the techniques you use in the strings.

The quotation from the hymn is brilliant. Just like Ives used to do.

Really nice work! I listened all the way through. The section from m 72-105 caught my attention so I took a closer look.

There are a lot of good ideas here, but the counterpoint feels a little messy because there are a lot of voices on top of each other and crossing each other, so it’s hard for to hear each voice independently. M 76-80 is particularly noticeable. The second violin part overlaps with the first on and off. I would suggest maybe instead of the divisi in the seconds just give them their one independent line? Since the divisi overlaps the firsts quite a bit.

Overall great work though, I enjoyed listening!

Some nice use of extended string techniques here.

I've never seen sub-harmonic and chopped directions before. Wonder if you could explain what they mean, and how they're performed?

To answer your question about these techniques

Chopping is a percussive technique where you pick up the bow and you near the frog push downward at the string. There should be done with a good amount of pressure, causing a short, percussive chopped sound.

The subharmonic is another string technique where you grab a little more pressure than usual on the bow there should be a sweet spot to this. A very good contact point should be a little towards the fingerboard, but the resulting pitch that comes out of this should be an octave below the target note.

This is created because that the bow is gripping twice as much times when Bowing, so that heimholtz motion is doubled