Composer: McMillan, Benjamin
Instrumentation: Solo and Piano Instruments: Piano, Tuba
Harmonically, this was a gateway composition for me that expanded my horizons in terms of learning to work more with dissonance and finding what I like to hear. I can't tell you what mode or modes it's in—I frankly don't care. The harmonic language developed slowly and was guided by ear into its final form. The minor 2nd motion, initially between F and G-flat, and the tritone down to C served as the major reference points for the harmonic language.
The title is probably fairly self-explanatory. I haven't been a stranger to the use of multi-meter in my writing, but this one really takes the cake for the sheer amount of meter changes. Where I had used the term "kaleidoscopic" before to describe constantly-shifting meter, this time I went with nomadic—always on the move. This applies as much to the rhythm as it does the changing meters and key centers.
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