A Single Air Rifle Shot

A Single Air Rifle Shot is the first post-minimalist piano solo of a mature cohesive nature that is both original and solidly written and exhibits a new coherent personal style. It is a minimalist work based on a repetitive cell structure. The intent to move away from the conventional techniques of modern contemporary, dissonant, and permuting pitch class sets is palatable.

Oscillating left- and right-hand punctuating chords in a predominantly bright Ab major chord, cycles through half a dozen key centers throughout the roughly eight-minute piece. In this way, the piece shifts following a fluctuating circle of parallel chromatic mediants from one half in the exchange between left- and right-hand broken chords and then to a B-section of triplet pattern undulating motivic rhythms before returning to the opening material of rapidly repeating chords in new key areas.