THE BLUR OF TIME AND MEMORY
digital piano, retuned
digital piano, retuned
The Blur of Time and Memory was composed for pianist Aron Kallay’s Beyond 12 project, a series of commissions and albums of music for digitally retuned piano. Each composer is invited to reimagine not only the tuning system of the instrument, but also the keyboard mapping of those pitches using a combination of Scala files and the PianoTeq virtual instrument. I decided to balance family equal tempered pitches with various microtones achieved by dividing the half step into 5 equal tempered steps. The title of the piece was inspired by my reaction to hearing this tuning system played while scales and chords gradually ascended and descended through these five equal divisions of a half step, particularly with the sustain pedal depressed. Such a figure is the primary theme and motive of The Blur of Time and Memory.
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