Becomings-Endless

The conceptual premise of this work derives from its multiple 'vantage points' of listening.

One could listen to the single voice forward or backward and it will sound correct. However, it was really composed to be sonorous while the forward and backward lines play together simultaneously. This creates an unexpected and invigorating counterpoint among the two distinct lines. Halfway through the two voices playing, the forward and backward lines flip. You can notice after the conclusion of just the first voice performance that when both start to play the bottom voice is the reverse. However, at the end of the piece, the bottom voice is now forward and the voice that started forward ends as the reverse.

Becomings-Endless is a reference to "always in the middle of things" and the synergistic effect of harmony. Life and every dimension of it is its own contained becoming, a process. Nothing has an absolute start or finish. It is always the comings and goings, the in-betweens. A single line by itself bares an impact, but with the addition of another independent line the human mind starts to attune and create its own world with the music in real time. Perceived chords, inversions, phrases, calls and responses etc. These are all the comings, goings, and in-betweens of just two lines. This interplay creates other manifestations of organically developing expression.

As the forward-backward contrapuntal nature of this work mirrors the circularity of all things, we can ask is the music starting from the beginning? The ending? Or does it simply exist as a perpetual in-between?

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Tools used: Logic Pro X, East West sound library, and my guitars. No AI.