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- Emily Howard
Sky and Water (2005)
(for piano solo)- Peters Edition Limited (World)
First performed by John McCabe on 22nd February 2006 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London UK as part of the Landscapes of the Mind Festival
Programme Note
Composed in 2005, Sky and Water is a short, atmospheric work for solo piano. It was inspired by M. C. Escher’s wood etching Sky and Water I in which birds appear to be systematically transformed into fish and visa versa. To me this suggested the possibility of working with a computational sorting algorithm ‘Insertion Sort’ to bring about a transformation in terms of pitch, and specifically melodic line: in my composition, the opening descending figure slowly evolves into an ascending figure by the end of the piece.
Emily Howard, 2010
Media
Toccata Classics, John McCabe (piano), released 19 September 2011