Second Piano Sonata (2007)
for solo piano
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Ashlee Mack, piano
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The Second Piano Sonata, written for Ashlee Mack with a grant from Western Illinois University, lasts approximately 13 minutes. The work is inspired by two recent novels of Haruki Murakami. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and Kafka on the Shore feature recurring themes that appear, disappear, intermingle, and re-iterate within a constantly evolving/mutating formal structure. As a reader drifts through Murakami’s dream-like worlds, temporality is obfuscated by flash-back and flash-forward while non-linear plots, paradigms, and principles are revealed through semiotic isomorphism of event and motivation.