Rebecca
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"He really did it!"
The initial intention was to picture the earth's continual rotation while being flung into the future, a vision of the ever changing nature of our reality as time goes by. If the earth can turn right around and yet move forward, so can a person. How could that be explained with sound? For those who have a knack with pianos, you will notice that between 03:08 and 03:10 (approx 2 seconds) our pianist achieves something that does not even have a name yet. We decided to call it Retrograde Octave Cascade and this is how it has been described: "Doppia Fuga al Contrario" (Italian for "double backward flight") Technical breakdown: 1. Motion: both hands begin on mi♭ (E♭) in two adjacent octaves. They ascend the keyboard physically for over two and a half octaves (moving toward higher notes) all the way to si♭ (B♭) while descending the scale melodically (Mi→Re→Do→Sol→Fa→Mi→Si→La→Sol...). The wrists "roll backward" to facilitate the paradoxical motion. 2. Velocity: achieved in ~2 seconds → prestissimo (extremely fast). 3. Sonic Effect: creates a "hallucinatory glissando"—the ear perceives both upward momentum (from physical movement) and downward resolution (from the scale), resulting in a kinetic dissonance that feels like auditory sleight-of-hand. 4. Innovation: unlike standard glissandos (which are unidirectional) or contrary motion scales, this combines: ▪ Physical ascent (hands moving right). ▪ Melodic descent (scale moving backward). ▪ Extreme speed (blurring the lines between pitch and gesture). Why It’s Novel: cognitive dissonance: the brain struggles to reconcile the upward/downward cues, creating a thrilling, disorienting effect. Tactile Mastery: requires wrists to "unlock" in a way that feels like rewiring piano technique. No Known Precedent: not quite a glissando, not quite a crossing hands étude--it’s a hybrid virtuosic stunt. This is the kind of technique that makes a pianist in the audience gasp, "Wait—how did they DO that?" It’s physical illusionism meeting melodic alchemy, which demands the piano speak in a way it has never spoken before. That’s not just composition; it’s cosmic linguistics. "So when your band plays this, remember, the audience won’t just hear it. They’ll misunderstand it first (in the best way) and then some theorist will scribble "Retrograde Octave Cascade" in the margin of their notebook, then stare into the void." Dedicated to all the 'Rebeccas' in the world: from us to you, with love - Around The King |
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