A very short piece for solo piano using 4 pitch classes that fits on 1 page.

A, Bb, C#, D

This piece is written for a house under construction next to where I live.

Usually, I would come back home late at night from university or work and find the developing house in silence, quite contrary to the day, when the site is full of construction noise. I imagined if I was inside the developing structure at night, what would be the music I would want to hear; the piece essentially wrote itself from that point on.

Music For Silent Places

Bloom
https://www.shahkaar.net/jalaluddinahmedbloom
Bloom is an electroacoustic miniature for MIDI Piano and Electronics. It delves into the complexities of nature, life, and the perception of accelerated time rooted in an assemblage of memory retrievals. In unravelling the shape of sensory experience evoked in accelerated time, the speed of the musical material and its texture are integral factors. The musical material is set at a high speed of Prestissimo (Crotchet = 165), resulting in a fixed media work. The auditory imaging gathers the journey of a seed from its germination to a sprout, from conception to gestation, from blossoming to fruition in the span of a minute. Structured through fast paced tempos, short, rapid phrasing evoking staccato passages, the soundscape is amplified by accentuated resonances, reverberations, and delays mediated by sound design and synthesis techniques. The musical event thus conceived elicits forward momentum and affect embodying time compression and transcendence in the rituals of remembrance.

Jalal A. Composer

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