form language

The consistent repetitive piano notes underlay the entire composition. The music starts and ends with them and they never change. They’re delicate with a little space between them, and their binary quality speaks of steps to me, marking slow but unyielding progress. These are in a minor key which projects introversion and some tension, and the tempo is reflective, so I can see a stone path being elevated above a reflecting pool.

The violin, a light, airy organic / feminine energy, flows into the composition and soars, weaves and dips, like a kite with a long tail, dancing in the wind. It’s almost as continuity present as the piano keys, and since it envelops the musical composition, I believe it could also envelop the physical composition, but always keeping within implied physical limits which define a tube. This voice is the most expressive so it should be conveyed three-dimensionally, not just in plan view. For the sake of the model building, it’s possible to create a tube of wire mesh and wrap ribbon around to give it structure.

Toward the end, various layers of percussion are layered onto the piano pathway, and those can be easily represented by a hierarchy of columns, and other vertical elements, like perhaps verticals on a railing.

The trumpet sounds are more malleable than the percussion, and playful, so I see those as pieces of stretched canvas overlapping each other to form a canopy, which continues after the percussion stops, hanging on almost the very end.

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