Case studies
1. Re-contextualizing a most remarkable fragment from L'Ange aux parfums (from Les Corps Glorieux, 1939)
This duet is a unique passage in the history of keyboard music. Written in 1939(!), the texture remains completely original; nothing similar has ever been written by Strawinsky, Bartok, Schönberg, Varèse at the time or, as far as I know, any other composer since. Here is the original for organ:
I made a transcription for piano for the avant-jazz trio Turnstone, with Friso van Wijck, drums, and Ruben Verbruggen, saxophone:
A few more examples of how to recontextualize this passage for organ and piano respectively:
2. Looping a part of a scale from "Livre du Saint Sacrement (1984)
