"Organic form itself is found, mathematically speaking, to be a function of time. We might call the form of an organism an event in space-time, and not merely a configuration in space." (Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants)
Fern is a postscript to Kranz. It uses the same plant-like algorithm, of which I translated the first recursions (a slowly growing repetitive structure) to the piano.
Fern is dedicated to Dante Boon.
Blurb
Fern by Anthony Fiumara is a relief. A gorgeously slumbering shadow play with piano chords that slowly fan out like leaves of a fern. Music that discovers and listens to itself, without spectacular tricks.
Brabants Dagblad
Audio
Score sample
Scoring
Piano
Duration
9'
First performance
September 24 2006, Mellotone Piano Studio Amsterdam, by Dante Boon.