technical ideas

harmonies of metre in 'neapolitan sixth part 1'
cycle and sequence in 'hippolyte & aricie'
experiments in translation
'translations from the original'
melodic and scalar transformation in 'tourist in a strange land'
the harmonic and inverse harmonic series
delay times
'BenneMad (1987)' - translating pitch to rhythm, rhythm to pitch
15/12 time signatures - 'drift', 'nothing's gone forever'
prose rhythms in 'variations for piano' and other early works
building large scale structure around harmony of pulse - 'the turning world'
understanding tuning
using pro-tools to generate rhythmic variation in 'the more than funky drummer'

associative ideas

character and imagination
variation and development
connecting simple and complex ideas

musical philosophy

© Jonathan Parry 2006