Bedazzlation (2024)
My 13th piece for normally-tuned computer-driven piano (Disklavier), Bedazzlation is the first and only one to not use any tuplets - triplets, quintuplets, septuplets, or other cross-beat groupings. Every note is on a 16th-note grid. Instead I used meters such as 15/16, 21/16, 33/16, 35/16, 39/16, and even virtual 105/16 (35/16 in three-measure groupings) to obtain cross-rhythms such as 5-against-3, 7-against-5, 7-against-5-against-3, and so on. The title once again comes from my favorite poet Kenneth Patchen (a word he seems to have made up):
And all the heavens I swear flapped like
Some delighted bird with glowing eyes
Fixed down on our bedazzlated faces.The G-F motive in the bass is a conscious memory of the late, great Elodie Lauten.
- Kyle Gann
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