Joanne Chang, piano. Tenri Cultural Institute, New York.

Flexible Desires, for solo piano, was commissioned by pianist Joanne Chang with funds provided by the City University of New York. The work is cast in a single movement and presents two sets of very contrasting materials; the first one is harsh, rhythmic, dissonant and mostly contrapuntally based, while the second is lyrical, smoother, consonant and mostly harmonically based.

The whole work grows organically from the development and the superimposition of these two thematic ideas, and also showcases that alternation and tension between tonality and atonality that is an increasingly recurrent feature of my music. The title is a reference to the fact that in music (as well as in life in general) the desire toward consonance always has to come to terms with the desire toward dissonance and vice-versa.

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