preluding for solo piano

(2020-21)

What does it mean to begin, or to get ready to begin, or to think about starting to get ready to begin? The “prelude” is such a flexible “before” moment - to set the scene and then move on - but it is also about place. A prelude comes at the start of something. Someday I want to create a set of preludes that are the end of something, perhaps setting up another something that hasn’t yet happened or even been considered yet, to make prelude a verb.

 

preluding is part of an ongoing set of solo piano works call "circlings" which I have written simply because I wanted to. That is all I can say.