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Fabrication 28: Artefact
Interleaved Variations and Two Themes
2015
2 pianos
duration 22'
SCOREPerformance Score available upon request
PROGRAM NOTE
I typically write music with fairly involved programmatic intentions along with forms that echo or amplify them. However, I also enjoy music that simply unfolds a process or a ‘conceit’. Fabrication 28: Artefact is a component part of a larger 32-movement cycle for various ensembles ranging from solos and duos to works for orchestra. These Fabrications explore more mechanical approaches to generating music. Each has a subtitle; a synonym of ‘fabrication’ which says something about the piece itself.
Fabrication 28: Artefact consists of two interleaved sets of variations running in different directions and each contained by unconnected cadential figures where, often, one set of variations hinges and pivots to the other.
see also Fabrications