"Thin Rake", the Piano Piece

[Peter Armstrong]

My piano-4-hands piece based on Paul Callahan's & Dean Hickerson's Game-of-Life image is now on-line at:
<http://imslp.org/wiki/Thin_Rake_%28Arms ... cKenzie%29> (separate score and audio files);
<https://soundcloud.com/peter-mckenzie-a ... me-of-life> (audio alone);
<https://archive.org/details/PMAThinRake> (score and audio combined as video).

I'm listing all the sites here, as their audio quality and image resolution vary -- especially at the last,
where work to improve resolution is now underway.

Thanks to DH & PC for their good will, and to the responders to my original "Copyright..." question.

PMA

[biggiemac]

That's actually really neat! It's atonal and percussive as I expected, but seems naturally tasteful and I was surprised to recognize the gliders as their own tiny motif.

I'm a pianist myself and although this is a little out of my stylistic comfort zone I could maybe try to find a second person to play this with. It's a long shot anyone I ask would be interested but here at CalTech I imagine the slim odds are slightly less so. I'll let you know if anything comes of it.

[Peter Armstrong]

Well, thanks! -- except, I've got to say, any taste in it was intrinsic to the pattern (i.e., "wasn't me").
The gliders you've noted are what prompted my comment (in 'NOTES') re the Ninety-Deg Transform
in post-WWII serial theory. If you do find another pianist brave/crazy enough to try playing this, do
feel free to take each-other's material here and there as finger-shortage requires. I didn't score such
choices, only because 4 staves' worth of pitch distribution by (big) range alone looked fussy enough.

And feel free re a maybe saner tempo. It's my MIDI sequencer that's fine with muscle spasms.