The Thousand Faces of Form
Program notes
The Thousand Faces of Form was written for the Kitchener-Waterloo symphony as part of an "Intersections" concert curated by Krista Blake. It is a collaborative work with Nathan Selikoff, who provided live visualizations at the concert. The piece is five movements, the first three of which are played without pause, each based on a simple visual metaphor.
- Static
- Thread
- Shape
- Rain
- Echoes
On a more technical level, there is a lot of fancy geometrical theory under the hood. Almost all of the important musical material is structurally analogous, drawn from a series of similar structures found throughout geometrical chord space. The theory here is entirely new, and I ended up writing some custom software to work with these structures. Nathan's amazing visuals echoed these structural relationships, providing a second way to understand the underlying relationships.
Instrumentation: Orchestra (2-2-2-2, 4-2-3-1, hp., two percussion, strings)
