![]() ![]() “Home” has resonated with York’s audience worldwide since the appearance of videos of the composer playing the heartfelt piece in 2016. Two lyrical pieces, “Home” and “Shine,” open the second side of the vinyl and second CD. For “c,” representing the speed of light, York chooses a Spanish-sounding sonority that alternates between G Phrygian and G major tonalities. In “∞,” York’s musical statement on infinity, he uses a sometimes-moody tremolo that flows into subsequent melodic material with leaps of an augmented second that give the movement an oriental feel at times. The fourth movement, “i”, is inspired by “an imaginary number that is the square root of negative one.” The music consists of a hypnotic ostinato in 7 (grouped 4 + 3) with a two-note bassline that appears alternately on the fourth string and then the sixth with a variety chords, arpeggios, and single notes sounding above. A brief contrapuntal figure later leads to a recap of the opening. York reveals that “e,” the introspective second movement, “is the base number of the natural logarithm 2.71828, a transcendental number found in growth of all kinds.” In “π” (pi), York opens with a sunny montuno figure the flows into lyrical episodes all underpinned by the montuno’s rhythm. The opening figure returns briefly before the piece ends on a peaceful E major chord. The piece progresses with a middle section that is sometimes pensive and elsewhere intense with salty dissonances at various points of arrival. ![]() The first movement, “h” is from Max Planck’s constant, which York states, “represents the smallest distance imaginable, where space and time both break down.” The longest movement (almost six minutes in length), it’s in E minor (actual pitch) and begins with an impressive flurry of descending notes played twice and then answered with an ascending scalar figure. The suite’s individual titles are single characters that York explains briefly in the liner notes. The entire suite (26 minutes in length) is played with a capo on the fifth fret, in an alternative tuning that affords York a palette of sonorities including different open strings and peppery seconds. The six-movement title work reveals the inspiration York draws from another of his passions: mathematics. ![]()
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