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"In loving memory of Kathryn Eagle.

This piece uses a record (a data structure) resulting from a field recording. It began with a waterfall in Washington (Little Mashel Falls) near my parents’ home, which I recorded in my mother’s final months of life. A brain cancer slowly took away her abilities, beginning with her speech. A loquacious person her entire life before this, I had to learn to hear and understand her in new ways. This piece is not about her, but there is something of her in it. I used a contact microphone, a shotgun mic, and a small diaphragm stereo pair in different positions to gather multiple profiles of the waterfall. I used these profiles and a system of decomposition and analysis to produce the record, containing pitch collections organized in groups and sequences according to amplitude and harmonic relations. This data was used to create the piano part. This is an irreversible transformation. The sound of the waterfall is in this material somewhere, but the limited/quantized means of transmission (microphones to frequency values to piano notes) obscure it or convert it into something else entirely. The resultant composition contains only acoustic sounds (piano, tiles, stones) and was recorded as performed (no overdubbing). This piece was written for and developed with Jack Yarbrough, whose relentless commitment and sensitivity transformed it into something better. Special thanks to the Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center." - John Eagle