Tag: 21st-century music

  • River Rays

    2026 . . . synthesized multimedia . . . 7:00

    String Theory was an original composition inspired by physicists’ theory of that name. The theory or its expansion, M Theory, built the mind-blowing hypothesis that all matter, even the tiniest subatomic particles like quarks, electrons, even photons, are not actually particles but inconceivably tiny, constantly spinning loops of energy.

    A musical metaphor, rapidly looping bright sounds, became “Fermi Lab” in Chicago Sketches (2019) for flute choir. Now it becomes the synthesized soundtrack for animated photos of some beautiful rivers in Montana, Colorado, and elsewhere.

    View the YouTube video

  • LIGHTFORMS

    Radiant music

    YouTube podcast

    Like light, music can radiate in intensity, change color, evolve.

    Each YouTube episode presents a 21st-century composition in synthesized sound exploring a luminous possibility — reflection, refraction, diffusion, sunlight, starlight, color spectrum . . . even light disappearing into a black hole.