Music for Sitting in the Wet Grass (2018)
Music for Sitting in the Wet Grass (2018) is an improvised work for disklavier and prepared player piano composed by Nathan Turczan, conceived by Madeline Falcone, McLean Macionis and Turczan, and performed by Macionis and Turczan at the October 2018 CalArts Machines and Strings concert Part I. Inspired by the spacey, measured chords of Tyshawn Sorey's "Permutations for Solo Piano," Turczan creates a flat sonic landscape in which chords are repeated (or not) in bell-like tollings, focusing on small one-note changes in a meditative study of piano resonance.
Conceptually derived from Turczan's exploration of scale networks (as described by Dmitri Tymoczko), the music navigates a web of forty-eight seven-note musical scales and their intersections.