Five Movements on Mondrian (2006) [6'30"]

Presentation history:
- Premiere: Atlanta, GA, 12/8/2006
- Graduate Recital, Atlanta, GA 2/2/07
- 16th Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Gainesville, FL, 4/13/07
- "Signals of the Vitruvian Man," Belfast, UK 2/29/08
- neoPhonia New Music Ensemble, Atlanta, GA 4/20/10

In this work, I made careful approximations of five of Piet Mondrian's paintings on graph paper and used the dimensions of these graphs to determine rhythms and forms. The work was made almost entirely in Csound, with some extra editing and reverberation in Sound Forge. To emulate Mondrian's primary-color world, I used a limited palette of sounds: percussive hits (bass drum, tom, snare, music stand, iron rail), white noise, the buzz and pluck opcodes, and granular synthesis clouds made from the words "blue," "red," and "yellow," spoken by myself.