Tonight Kamala and I are performing three movements of a planned five movement set, the title of which is the monstrosity you see above but can be rendered boringly as BABEL f(f(1)).! In addition to being the latest in my series of BABEL pieces, this is the premiere of a brand new series based on concepts of recursion and fractal math.! I think I’m going to call this new series the f(f(x)) series.
Several of the melodies in these three movements (particularly the first) contain themselves.! That is to say, if you play this melody on top of itself at half speed (or quarter speed, eighth speed, double speed, quadruple speed, etc.) they will continually line up with each other.! This piece is also quasi-fractal in that each movement of the larger piece is itself intended as a full composition, and some movements (such as the second and fourth) even contain yet more full (though short) pieces inside them.! This is still a work in progress, so buy me a beer and tell me what you think!
A brain-melter from Belgium’s Joeri Chipsvingers, this album goes full Beefheart on contemporary classical music, turning it inside out. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 19, 2020