Random Keys - for piano, bass and percussion

The line up of instruments – piano, bass, percussion – is a twist on the jazz piano trio. And there are subtle harmonic and rhythmic references to jazz in the music. The music is more influenced by my ongoing interest in chaos and entropy: the idea that the universe is getting increasingly more disorganized, increasingly random. The music unfolds in a three-movement expanding structure. Each movement is longer than the last by the same proportion (so 1:2:4), and has the same basic structural outline. So, analogous with cosmic expansion, the second movement stretches the basic shape of the first; the third movement stretches the shape of the second.Random Keys was commissioned by Psappha.