Description
for F. William Johnson
A Lake of Violet Flames
for 4 pianos and drums (2:30)
In response to the music by Julius Eastman
Bill Johnson lent me a copy of music by Julius Eastman. I find my reaction to music often is: "anybody could have written that."
I wrote this in response.
I feel that only I could have written this.
I used an alternation of the eight I Ching set that all have lake as the bottom treegram (+ + - ). The fixed keys for these range from Eb - E. I alternated and slightly overlapped each section in this pattern: 57, 50, 56, 51, 55, 52, 54, and 53. It starts in E and ends in Eb, which I think is a very non-traditional thing to do; a very uncommon thing to do.