Refraction

2017 | 3 minutes
for solo piano

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This piece creates a transition between Gÿgory Ligeti’s “Étude 5: Arc-en-ciel” from Etudes Pour
Piano and Issac Albéniz’s “Evocacion” from Iberia - Book 1. Sitting with these two pieces, I found three or four impactful moments within each work. The shared characteristic of each of these moments was the feeling of harmonic stasis. The composers allowed the listener to bask in a sonority used in the context of otherwise restless harmonic palettes. I sat with these select portions of each of the pieces frustrated in how sudden and jagged it felt when I tried to transition between the Ligeti and the Albéniz material. I was trying too hard to find similarities within the given material and forcing them together to be one piece.

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