Every Something Is an Echo of Nothing (2011)

Every Something Is an Echo of Nothing is a piece for virtual retuned piano with 30 pitches to the octave. The title is a quote from John Cage's book Silence. The two movements, "Nothing" and "Something," use the same tuning. "Nothing" is about gentle emptiness; "Something" is kind of a fast piano blues that regroups the first movement's chord progressions into more rhythmically familiar configurations. This "Something" is truly an echo of "Nothing." I thank pianist Aron Kallay for commissioning the work.

Kyle Gann

Duration: 11 minutes + 4 minutes = 15 minutes total

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