Bang on a Can

All three parts of this piece are based on three interlocking kalimba melodies, utilized in various voices, positions and contexts. Their relationships are constantly changing just like the pieces of a mobile sculpture. The drums from Parts 2 & 3 come from these melodies. Part 1 finds each note of the melody eventually replaced with a sustained tone of the opposite rhythm, its shadow, revealing the unintentional rhythm of the spaces, that is, the rhythm of what isn’t there.