Generative Blues
This work approaches blues as a condition of persistence rather than a fixed form. Instead of composing a linear piece, it constructs a system of motif families and behavioral rules through which four voices move within a shared harmonic space over time.
Each voice operates within a constrained vocabulary of phrases. These phrases are revisited, repeated, and slowly altered through a weighted walk, favoring return over departure. Ideas are not quickly resolved; they are held, reconsidered, and reintroduced. The system allows dissonances to linger, producing subtle instabilities—beating tones, suspended relationships, and partial alignments that never fully settle. Rather than correcting these tensions, the piece remains inside them.
The acoustic palette is intentionally limited. All voices are derived from simple waveforms with stable harmonic structures, shaped through slow filtering and extended release envelopes. These constraints transform discrete note events into overlapping fiel