beghilolia (2016)
Written for the NYU Symphony Orchestra and premiered at Symphony Space (New York, NY).
program notes:
The title beghilolia is derived from the word "beghilos", which is the unintentional alphabet of available letters found on a calculator when turned upside down. I began this piece with the aesthetic properties of symmetry, architecture, and fluidity in mind, devising the central chord of the piece to have the same intervallic structure above and below the middle note. Unintentionally, the pitches of the chord could be explained diatonically by a major scale. Rather than fight these inherent pitch/harmonic properties one way or another, I simply let these eight pitch classes serve as a parameter in which I could explore other facets of the music: color, texture, contour, spatialization, and acoustic phenomena.