JOHN LIBERATORE
composer

Purchase Score

Unlike many of my recent pieces, the six short movements in this piano piece are not consciously organized into a larger form.  Still, though each movement is self-contained, the pieces in this collection share some aesthetic link.  I think of these pieces as drawings. They are meant to be immediate—a two-dimensional space that that enters the eye at once, but that the mind may comprehend more gradually.  At the same time, each piece is a continuous line of some kind.  The first piece, for instance, is a pseudo-hocket in which the persistent eighth-note pulse obfuscates the composite texture; it is deliberately ambiguous as to how many lines have been disbursed across the registers of the piano.  A listener may perceive an upper “descant” between the highest notes, a bass line between the lowest notes, and any number of internal voices.  Thus, many lines and shapes may emerge from what is really just a succession of eighth notes.