Skeletal Keys (2007)

Skeletal Keys, a composition for wavefield synthesis playback, explores notions of harmonic and motivic cell repetition and reconfiguration found in the music of Erik Satie (1866 – 1925) and Morton Feldman (1926 – 1987). Such techniques were fundamental to both composers in different ways, from Feldman's early "graph" music and later notational practice, to Satie's early "mystical" works and the later pieces such as Cinema. Skeletal Keys contains elements of a number of these works, each inhabiting different spatial zones.

Tom Hall