In an attempt to try new forms for dissemination and presentation of ideas
I’ve put together a “slide show” to accompany a project I call Rust.
Why do I call it that? The process of corroding metal seemed an apt starting point for the compositional process. Given sufficient time the metallic mass converts entirely to rust and disintegrates, this process is slow or in the case of aluminum extremely slow (passivation). I wanted to make music that developed or disintegrated slowly over long periods, music that would exist in an environment not as a performance.
It is essentially: a serial form, an open vessel for composition, a communal work, functional modal harmony, cellular automata.
There is no specified instrumentation. There is no specified duration. Rhythms are temporal not metric. The music for this slide show (r1) represents one iteration of this form.