Solo at The DiMenna Center 2/7/26

This clip from the opening minutes of my solo performance last weekend at The DiMenna Center gives a glimpse of the music’s harmonic architecture, beginning spontaneously to solidify in this passage, and which was centered around C#, part of an octatonic network of which it was the 7th degree, and which was superimposed upon the primordial white-key diatonic network, a parallel realm that emerged in opposition to it from time to time as a luminous force and that supplied the psychological impetus for the entire 72-minute improvisation. Tonality is about conflict. Here that conflict is embodied in the anatomy of the piano, in the counterpoint of chromatic and diatonic realms whose interaction, like the coming together of magnets at their ends of like charge, became a metaphor for and expression of what I have been experiencing presently.