More Examples

During the last few days I spend a lot of time sketching the outlines of every segment. I discovered that it seems to be almost inevitable to have narrativity; I can see the already in this preliminary state. But I am still confident that the brevity of the segments and their quantity will prevent narrativity from ensuing.

Examples

I collected some examples on how the different parts might be based. Every part starts with a chord: This is the connection between the parts. Since the chord does not change throughout the piece there will be no development in the music. The snippets themselves will comprise of completely different material. So the entire piece will, hopefully, have cohesion but not narrativity.

Examples 1

Fresh start

I dismissed everything I wrote so far. I am feeling very bad about having three equal sized parts which meet my requirements in itself but are likely to fail as a whole. Sorry about that!

So I have to think about a new concept. Why am I so inclined to write something non-narrative in the first place? I guess that I like the tension in a piece of art which ensues, when something very different is forced together, something that would never be together under normal circumstances. In the past I wrote some pieces which forcefully glued together different types of antithetic musical material. But maybe I have improved over concepts which deal with such huge parts.

Instead of this I sketched a new form with consists not of three but of 31 parts. That's a real difference! So every part is now at most 80 seconds long, but in most cases much shorter. In doing so I expect the listener not to hear every part on its own but rather all parts flowing together. So the appropriate term for "part" might be "segment" now. Here are some calculations:

Some Calculations

In every row you may see the total duration. E. g. in the first row, the segment will be 15 seconds in total. I reserve four seconds for a chord which will initiate any segment. In a tempo with Quarters = 72 this segment will have 18 quarters. Let's see where this will leads us.