Name: Meditation, The Void, And Transcendence Op. 10 (For Harp) by Jeremy Esquer
Duration: 5 min 11 s
Description: Some have had the unfortunate circumstance of being captured by mental illness, whether that be though depression, anxiety, trauma, or some other diagnosis. This piece was created to reduce anxiety and incorporates a breathing technique to help reduce an individual’s heart rate and put them in a relaxed state.

Some have had the unfortunate circumstance of being captured by mental illness, whether that be though depression, anxiety, trauma, or some other diagnosis. This piece was created to reduce anxiety and incorporates a breathing technique to help reduce an individual’s heart rate and put them in a relaxed state.

Meditation, The Void, And Transcendence Op. 10 (For Harp)

There are 362,797,056 ways to partition a three octave span into three aggregates.  Once you do so, reading each aggregate from low to high, you get three 12-tone rows.  If you further require that those rows feature at least 7 distinct interval classes, the 362,797,056 possibilities reduce to just 46.  One of those 46 possibilities plays the role here of a passacaglia-like chord progression.  

There are 144 ways to have three triads sit within the aggregate without any overlap.  Remarkably, one can cycle through those possibilities so that each step turns up just one new triad.  Such a cycle provides the figuration for the variations. 

The overall effect produces a counterpoint between two opposing notions of harmonic rhythm, one based on the cycle of aggregates, and one based on the the featured triads.

A Friendly Accord between Aggregates and Triads, for guitar

SCHEINTOT is a new trio consisting of Mats Gustafsson (sax, flute), Henrik Rylander (no input mixing desk) and Joachim Nordwall (Korg MS20) and this is a track off their new split LP with JOHN DUNCAN. 200 copies made. Head over to Sound OHM, Rumpsti Pumsti, Boomkat, Discreet Music or something, will you? They will hit you up.

SCHEINTOT - ERWEITERUNG

The chorale melody was harmonized in 1968 as part of an arranging  class assignment,  The idea was to start with a given chorale melody and harmonize it in the style of J. S. Bach, starting a single pitch and through suspensions and resolutions add additional voices.  The variations were added in 2016 as an entry for a competition for a brass piece at the "Sons of Sibelius" Web Site.  The composition tied for second place.

Chorale And Five Variations for Brass Quintet

The French group TM+ and director Laurent Cuniot premiere this work for mixed sextet.

Chaconne Part 1 TM+

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Meditation, The Void, And Transcendence Op. 10 (For Harp)

Jeremy Esquer

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