"The Book of Ways" (2010) is a work for improvising saxophonist and improvising string quartet. Actually, the quartet does not improvise completely but rather uses notated material in such a way that each quartet member can choose what to play, when and how to play it. The goal is spontaneous interaction and reaction between the quartet and improvising soloist, and vice versa. Ten hexagrams were chosen from the total of 64 found in the I-Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes. Saxophonist Cathal Roche found that each hexagram could dictate what fingers he was allowed to keep down and which ones he was allowed to move when playing.
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- 1Friday No.463:48
- 2Friday No.283:07
- 3Friday No.512:57
- 4Friday No.482:51
- 5Friday No.162:49
- 6Friday No.72:48
- 7Friday No.403:44
- 8Friday No.13:08
- 9Friday No.53:13
- 10Friday No.344:35
- 11Thursday No.343:54
- 12Thursday No.404:19
- 13Thursday No.13:48
- 14Thursday No.73:38
- 15Thursday No.52:59
- 16Thursday No.164:38
- 17Thursday No.283:04
- 18Thursday No.482:58
- 19Thursday No.514:21
- 20Thursday No.464:12
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