The Alchemist's Riddle
| Year Composed: | 2008 |
| Instrumentation: | vibraphone |
| Duration | 9 minutes |
Audio Excerpts (MP3)
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
- April 21, 2016 - Austin Lamarche, vibraphone.
Commisions and Awards
- commissioned by Tim Francom