Codes for solo Piano

Featuring six short pieces of contrasting characters:

The first piece is a collage that presents many of the ideas that will be developed in the later five pieces. However in this brief initial presentation they are obscured or disguised. The second piece is one large gesture that expands and contracts in many parameters, such as dynamics, register, rhythm, and pitch collections. The third piece explores organic growth versus abrupt interruption using quickly repeating gestures. The fourth piece features a free lyric melody, which becomes engulfed by descending tremolos. The fifth piece combines ideas of serial composition with diatonic and pentatonic harmonies. The final movement is a passagalia.

as performed by Hyojin Ahn