Stories From Outside The House

instrumentation: narrator, trumpet, horn, trombone, and piano
duration: c. 6’00”
dedication: no dedication
premiere: November 1st, 2013 by Carlos Olmedo, Eli Denecke, Kevin Krivosik, Wm. Riley Leitch, and Kyle Singer; Music Factory-Normal, IL

 Stories From Outside The House
brings you briefly into the world of an agoraphobia victim. This victim's public narration is drawn from the abridged anecdotes in "Afraid of Everything: A Personal History of Agoraphobia." The ensemble, in response, is the self deprecating internal voice underneath and undermining the public narration. The ensemble manifests what we don't see on the surface of social anxiety, the abusive mind that reminds us that the only thing worse than being broken is knowing that once you did not need to be fixed.