Overview

The pieces in this collection could be considered simple from at least two different perspectives. Perhaps most noticeably, they are technically fairly easy to perform. Beginner piano players could perform many of the pieces without much difficulty. Equally significant, however, is the compositional simplicity of these pieces. They are each based on a very simple idea or process: the systematic construction and deconstruction of a pattern; a repeated melodic figure but with different rhythmic or metric emphasis; a repeated melodic figure against changing harmony. Most of the pieces set up a process and let it resolve to its natural conclusion. Some of the pieces, however, utilize a process that could theoretically go on indefinitely. In these cases, it is up to the performer to decide when to terminate the process, thereby ending the piece.

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Rob Collier is a Louisville-based composer and performer. His music has been released on Capstone Records in the United States, and Unlabel, WM Recordings, and Greed Recordings in Europe. Collier's music is meditative and hypnotic, utilizing repetition and simple compositional processes as a means of development. His latest solo release is Ten Simple Pieces for Piano on auralgamiSOUNDS. He currently teaches music theory and composition at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky.

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