[021] «hYDAtorizon» for harpsichord or piano and sine-waves or string quartet (1998)

Four loudspeakers transmitting a constant signal of sliding sine-tones are installed inside a piano where they create sympathetic vibrations with the strings. The piano picks out single notes from this slow flowing harmonic stream. The zen-like nature of this piece is inspired by the pre-socratic philosopher Parmenides who coined the oxymoron “hydatorizon” (water-rooted) to describe his world view in both a material and metaphysical sense. [bad word] the mind to something like floating seaweed - groundless and drifting - to be rooted in water in one sense is to have lost one’s roots.