pyramid

March 2 at DMG

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NOTES (for everyone)
Conducting Signals

Percussion
Guitar
Flute
Bassoon
Trombone/Bass
Trumpet
Bb saxophone
Eb saxophone

pyramid is a section from a 7 movement spatial location composition for 3 electric guitars. Long story. It’s still yet to be played up to form. Detailed information on pyramid’s structure can be found here. But, this is a very interesting ensemble/live composition (improvisation) vehicle with lots of possibilities.

EARS EARS EARS

As usual, getting the key patterns in your ear makes all the live moves far easier when we’re all together since we have to be able jump in at the top, or at a particular measure, or whatever. There are crosscurrents that can get confusing (as usual).

Everything in pyramid builds from this single line of 8 pitches
(Line 4 on your chart):

Two additional lines run with this (the same melody, but each a major 3rd apart):

Then this gets fleshed out in the “middle” in lines 2 & 3:

Out of all this is derived this melody (section 1):

…which is then staggered into a canon, which is the real deal in this case:

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