Three Places In Grand Rapids

I. Allemande (introductions)
II. Courante (flirting)
III. Sarabande (intimate conversation)
IV. Fugue (parking ticket)

Suite For Flower Pots and Cello (blind date)

i. lowest-fi
ii. window shopping from inside
iii. 1949

In lowest-fi, I deconstruct two Irish folk melodies, distributing the notes among various synthesized sounds and using the pitch-classes to generate changes in meter. 

Window shopping from inside is an exploration of symmetry (nearly all the pitches are symmetrical across the arbitrarily imposed axis of D-natural) and the golden ratio (dictates the structure).

1949 is a reflection on the complicated legacy of Mao Zedong. His presence is still felt keenly in Hunan Province, China, where I lived with my family when I was young. A speech of his is set against a mystifying atonal hip-hop texture, with brief tonal interjections as well as samples from “Summer in the City,” by Quincy Jones and “It Never Entered My Mind” performed by Miles Davis.

Syncretic Mirage

edifice

Edifice II (old Rental House) for saxophone quartet, drum set, and fixed media

in december

i. A Point Is That Which Has No Parts

ii. A Line Is Length Without Breadth

iii. The Extremities Of A Line Are Points

iv. A Straight Or Right Line Is That Which Lies Evenly Between Its Extremities

Calvin Van Zytveld

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