Fuging Machine (2008)

Stephen D. Emmons, the composer, wrote Fuging Machine as a dedication to his friends who collaborated with him to accomplish his music. The audience could tell that the players enjoyed playing this song. The players may have enjoyed the song because they knew it was the last song of the concert. Seeing the fun the players had in this piece made the audience have more interest in the work. Fuging Machine is about a machine in a factory that spends its life making widgets.
After awhile the machine discovers that it can construct fugues. In the middle the machine expands into a full fugue, breaking away from just making widgets. By the end the machine returns to making widgets, but its existence is enriched by its new ability. The mechanistic music is developed by the clarinet. All instruments that perform during the concert joined together in Fuging Machine. The instruments all played an important part to produce the sounds that never repeated. The sounds give an image of various birds chirping.