The conventional wisdom holds that chance operations abolish "glue" (Henry Cowell's term, but often invoked by Cage).  That idea rests on presuming that statistical independence governs how  the operations place musical events within the music framework.  Well, not here.

As x and y coordinatize the Euclidean plane, time and pitch coordinatize musical space as constructed say on a piano roll.  But there's a difference: the plane enjoys rotational symmetry, but its far from clear how one would even compare the magnitude of a time duration with musical interval.

Take a circle and randomly choose 41 chords (meaning, sorry, line segments that connect two points on the circumference).  That makes 820 pairs of chords, but only above one third of the pairs will intersect (meaning, inside the circle).  Those roughly 270 points of intersection, plotted on a virtual piano roll, become the notes of a variation.  The piece consists of 10 variations.  Each note/point sits on two lines, so each line will contain an average of about 13 notes.  This is the emergent clue.  Depending on the slope of the line segment, it will sound as a chord, a broken chord, an arpeggio, a line slowly ascending or descending, or even a pedal tone.  Of course the points/notes on a line don't sit evenly spaced - their position gets determined by the random dispositions of the other chords.  But every note is overdetermined -- by design it sits on two lines and thus helps describe two different musical figures.

Empirically, the 88 note space of the piano (so 352 distinct pitches by the use of eighth-tones) feels like one minute.  Too much faster and the emergent shapes get compressed into illegibility, too much slower and the notes get unglued by the strain on short-term memory.

The accompanying graphic explores a similar construction, but in the visual realm.

Time-Space-Circle-Line-Point #7, for four pianos tuned in eighth tones

Terminus

"Der Pilz"

flippophil

I asked the mirror on the wall
Who was the biggest fool of all
But the mirror just stared back
I got no answers I got no track

Just remembered what you said
It's going round now in my head
Just be careful of what you say
"Cause I remember everyday

You said I love you I love you so
Never ever gonna let you go
But that's not true and you know I'm right
But I ain't going without a fight

Just remembered what you said
It's going round now in my head
Just be careful of what you say
"Cause I remember everyday

I heard you whisper
I heard you whisper
I heard you whisper
I heard you whisper I love you

Instrumental

Just remembered what you said
It's going round now in my head
Just be careful of what you say
"Cause I remember everyday

You said I love you I love you so
Never ever gonna let you go
But that's not true and you know I'm right
But I ain't going without a fight

Just remembered what you said
It's going round now in my head
Just be careful of what you say
"Cause I remember everyday

Outro

I Heard You Whisper

Yesterday I flew with my wings, I remember it well

Playing around with some beats paired with edits from an Alesis Ion and ASM Hydrasynth running thru a Big Sky reverb pedal- Peace! We need more of it!

OneKind- Head Space

A somewhat sloppy but hopefully still interesting little piano improvisation recorded in Cape Verde, West Africa in 2024. 

Verde

24 7 26

Flotilla of Hope

Throughout:
Hope and Heart, Here we are

Show our soul
Show our sane
Show we know to feed now
Sail
Pure power to you
Be gone sulphuric drone
Hate can't mute heart
If this hope we clone

Oh fine flotilla
Great humanity
We pray a path for your good sanity
Show them we're here
Show them we care
Show them new hope
To add to their prayer

Brave brother and sisters
The sith won't win
Forward fearless knots
Al Nakba to thin
No highjacked god can stop your love
The world is watching with most human dove

Feed the children
Sustenance of normal
Show them human hearts can hold them
Give real rights
Help them survive
Show them Earth has loving eyes

Flotilla of Hope
Our greater good
Flushed fear because we know we should
Aside evolution selection awaits
If heart can win and protect these traits

God power good humans
To all of you
Here's praying your hearts can make it through
Show the kids were here to break hate wall
Show the true love can prevail for all

Flotilla of Heart

the latest composition from this series of songs, no further editing at the moment
work in progress

VI. il poema del'assenza ( Let the ghosts sing )

Yearning Instrumental Demo is an unreleased draft from the creative forge of DestKorn, published under my side project Harmonic Echo. The piece is built on the intimate interplay of piano and violin, carrying a deeply melancholic, fragile atmosphere.

This is intentionally a demo version – it reflects the moment of creation, raw and unpolished, offering a direct glimpse into my creative process. It is not about perfection, but about capturing a feeling that later grew into the final track.

Yearning Demo ist ein unveröffentlichter Rohentwurf aus der Schmiede von DestKorn, veröffentlicht auf meinem Nebenprojekt Harmonic Echo. Dieses Stück basiert auf der innigen Verbindung von Piano und Violine und trägt eine melancholische, fast zerbrechliche Stimmung in sich.

Es handelt sich um eine Demo-Version – sie spiegelt den Moment der Entstehung wider, roh und ungeschliffen, ein direkter Einblick in meinen kreativen Prozess. Hier geht es nicht um Perfektion, sondern um das Festhalten einer Stimmung, die später zur fertigen Version führte.

Credits
Music, arrangement, mix & master: DestKorn / Lyrics : ~
Artwork: DestKorn
℗ 2025 DestKorn | © 2025 DestKorn. All rights reserved.
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Yearning Instrumental Demo

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Time-Space-Circle-Line-Point #7, for four pianos tuned in eighth tones

David Victor Feldman