Biggs & Vidiksis
Performed at the SEAMUS 2022 Conference at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Parenting, Summer Storms
This improvisation was recorded on June 4, 2021 in Adam and Chris’s homes in Wilmington, Delaware and Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sessions leading up to the recording were heavily peppered by outbursts, comments, questions, and music-making by our children. Our discussions frequently turned to the joys and struggles of parenthood, especially during the pandemic. The cries, laughter, and discussions of children could be heard throughout the sessions. While recording an early summer storm passed over the Greater Philadelphia Region—Chris’s childhood hometown and Adam’s current one—like the love of a small child: gentle, fearless, immediate, urgent, inexorable, and heartbreakingly brief.
