These are the varibles you have to set to customize the menu. The self-imposed constraints of Rhythmiconic Sections, primarily the short length of the sections, limited the degree to which I could explore that approach to composition. These moments go back to early childhood and stand clear in memory as if current. At some times in my life such experiences have been chemically induced, to be sure, but they lie deeper than that.
Music is linear.
It occurs in time and does not offer the immediate totality available in the visual arts where the viewer can start anywhere and go in any direction, can stand back to grasp the whole or up close to examine a detail. But even here the attempt to get at the Whole, to convey the Isness of it all, falls prey to the pitfall of representing one person's particular experience. This is the background for my current work. The movement and sounds of the road have long suggested themselves to me as the basis for musical composition and fits nicely into the current series based on cycles, patterns and continuity. Road work merely provdies variety along the way.