Night Construction was written for Todd Meehan’s Baylor Percussion Group at Baylor University in Texas. It features, among other things, a recording I made in a taxi traveling along the New Jersey Turnpike from Newark Airport, toy trumpets, plastic bags & other ad hoc percussion, a crackling fire & Gertrude Stein’s voice. The title makes reference to two composers’ works: Paul Lansky’s Night Traffic and John Cage’s Constructions in Metal. The piece is essentially a dreamscape that ends with a question from Gertrude Stein: "What is a normal American?"