Instrumentation: Solo Alto Saxophone

Duration : ~10 Minutes

Program Note: 

Tessellation Configurations is a work inspired by the idea of translating fundamental geometric shapes into sound. I began with a dot and a line, since these are the two basic elements from which all other shapes are formed. To create the sounds of these shapes, I imagined tracing each one by placing my finger at its top and moving counterclockwise, as if “walking” along its edge. As the piece unfolds, the shapes become increasingly complex. I start with a dot and then a line because these shapes are the simplest shapes in math. I started adding sides from the dot and line to have a triangle, wedge, square and finally a spiral. While a spiral may not have sides like any of the other shapes, I thought it was a shape that was important to include because it is still very uniform in its construction, even if it does not have defined sides like the shapes before it.