Working out a few new things for Empty Cage Quartet‘s three-day residency at Montalvo Arts Center this week. This will be the first of the third-generation Gravity compositions, utilizing only non-transposing gravity points (the longer pitch sets in the square boxes). These sets indicate two distinct intervallic relationships both above and below the central pitch ‘B’. The pitch and rhythmic material are all based on permutations of the numbers 11-11-11.

This piece is essentially a “tuning element” that will set up a harmonic space to be explored in the next few compositions.