The Alchemist's Riddle
- Year
- 2008
- Instrumentation
- vibraphone
- Duration
- 9 minutes
- Commissioned by
- Tim Francom
Program Notes
In this piece, the music follows a traditional template (fast-slow-fast), but one that is internally lacking in discrete sections. The absence of hard juxtapositions encouraged me, paradoxically, to include a variety of pitch classes, rhythmic ideas, and timbres, as an experiment in musical alchemy, the attempt to synthesize 'gold' (structural unity) from 'common metals' (the surface material.)
Performances
September 28, 2008 - Tim Francom, vibraphone. Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
November 25, 2008 - Tim Francom, vibraphone. Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
January 21, 2009 - Tim Francom, vibraphone. Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto