Compositions – Page 3 – An Echo That's Reversing

String Quartet No. 2 “heat death”

Cover: Suzan Woodruff, *Monsoon I*, acrylic on panel, 2003

String Quartet No. 2–Starting the 2nd movement

Superposition is the ability of a quantum system to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured.
–from WhatIs.com

measures 58-69 of the first movement, the end of the *1st state* and beginning of the *2nd state*

Suite for Turntables and Piano

Cover: section from an original Japanese movie poster for *Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess (Zubekô banchô: zange no neuchi mo nai / ずべ公番長ざんげの値打もない)* (1971)

Suite for Turntable and Piano — Expression

I’ve been.. a week? into the final movement.

The title is stolen from the giallo film by Sergio Martino, starring the classic giallo actress Edwiga Fenech, called Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key. Like all giallo it’s expressionist thriller, and this title comes from a previous film of his (same year, also Ms. Fenech) where a hapless victim receives a written message saying, without context and never explained: “your vice is a locked room.” We all have our creative byways.

Edwige Fenech from *Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key* (1972)

String Quartet No. 2 — First thoughts

I’m still a couple of months away from finishing the Suite for Turntables and Piano, and I never work on two pieces at the same time, but a specific subject and musical structure came to me a few weeks ago so it’s queued up.