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A Novel in the Form of a Car Bomb (2010)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I created this piece to visualize a compositional process that intrigued me. In this system, two pentagrams overlap and the resulting intersection makes it possible for one note to simultaneously exist as four. This occurs when assigning each pentagram a separate clef and then rotating the system. The entire system is mapped onto the face of a compass and, as the central dot radiates outward in all 8 directions, sets of pitches and harmonies are born. Originally, \u2018A Novel in the Form of a Car Bomb\u2019 was an hour long outdoor concert performed by a live chorus, an octophonic vehicular orchestra (8 cars projecting sound in-sync), and a group of actors. The work was based on a novel that artist Mary Walling Blackburn<\/a> wrote entirely on Twitter in early 2009 in response to violent car bombings that year.<\/p>\n