Morse Code

instrumentation: jazz orchestra
duration: 10 minutes
written in: 2009
commissioned by: The Dorian Wallace Big Band

program notes:
Morse code is a technique of communicating text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly obtained and communicated by and to a skilled listener without any special equipment. For those that do not speak Morse code, what is being said? That is always the question.