Hallock Hill

Hallock Hill, “Erosion,”2008

I see shapes when I stare at the keyboard. (Written this before…)

Here is a piece of modest intent I devised to explore some of the shapes I see in relation to modulation and delay. Each repetition of the main article undergoes a subtle or not-as-subtle change in pitch, in delayed echo, or in modulation. The strings and bells do different things too, but what exactly I am not sure. I went through a phase some time ago when I viewed both the keyboard and the guitar fingerboard purely as geometric entities and my job was to find shapes that were not merely noise (that was not my milieu) but were somehow constructive. Not “mathematical” music per se. But viz. THE OULIPO for the seed of inspiration.