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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