327 was written in response to Disquiet Junto Project 0327: Time Zoned.
Compose a piece of music with three separate and distinct through-lines. Think of each of the three lines as an individual voice. The important thing is that the three through-lines occur in your composition simultaneously. One voice should be in 3/4 time. One should be in 2/4 time. And one should be in 7/4 time.
I recently released Fragment Of A Dream, where I looped the lines in the instruments in such a way that they never repeated. I decided to use that same idea here, repeating each line. The three primary instruments, flute, clarinet and violin play their melodies in 7/4, 2/4 and 3/4 respectively (the score is in 7/4 for ease of reading). Each melody is featured in turn (the volume is increased) and when each instrument is ready to be featured it first completes the melody it is currently playing before being featured. While waiting for a melody to complete so that it can be featured, a cello breaks into the drone of the string bass. Wood blocks mark the 7, 2 and 3 counts. Reading the score makes more sense than the explanation I have attempted here.
327 was written for six solo instruments, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Wood Blocks, Cello, and String Bass.
