Powdered Wigs (b) | Piano Suite

[@josefschultewolter1091]

Extremely good work. It's fun, it's chaotic - in a logical way - kinda agressiv in its use of repeats and the counterpoint is wonderful. I love

[@pianiman]

Thank you for the kind comments and feedback! To answer your question about the Perpetuo miniature, they're determined by the binary code above the end-repeat sign for each colour/letter. If it's a 1, you must go back to the beginning of the corresponding letter/colour cell, if it's a 0 you get to pass through. I wrote out the "answer key" sequence at the bottom of the page so as to not drive myself and any potential performers absoutely mad.

[@nimzodragonlord]

Lmao the repeats in the perpetuo are obscene

[@pianiman]

:D I affectionately call that one The Gates of Hell

[@josefschultewolter1091]

@@pianiman Yeah how do you read that and what do the gates mean? Is there some kind of input signal that is changing throughout the piece?

[@kelvynchin1968]

@@pianiman Cool! But I've been looking at the perpetuo score for 10 minutes and I can't figure it out. What are the binary notations for? And the "OR.. AND AND.." gates? Do they have different interpretations each time you play them (i.e indeterminate?)? The style alludes to that of John Cage?

[@pianiman]

@@kelvynchin1968 Hi! Nah, if anything the piece is *hyper*determinate, so the opposite of John Cage. The instructions for how to take the repeats are just under the piece's title, but if you were to write out the piece using conventional notation, you'd use the answer key at the bottom of the page (and note the extra repeat bounded by the wavy brackets). The OR+AND+AND gates determine the easier ending. The conditions (inputs) are just below the bass clef of the easier ending in a font so ridiculously small that they are basically unrenderable, but if you must know, the conditions to send you to the easier ending basically amount to: "are your hands of normal or small size and not those of a giant? yes? go to easier ending." As for the binary code that is above the coloured/lettered repeats, I'll let you puzzle out how they were selected if you wish, but a hint: I needed to sometimes add terminal 0's to the bits/bytes, otherwise there would be infinite recursions and the title "Perpetuo" would become quite literal! Long story short, the piece is a musical joke :)