Diminished Fifths by The Change Music Variety Show

Diminished Fifths is what I call my favorite interval.

I taught myself to play this interval on the piano of a St. Louis University Medical Fraternity house, which I discovered mouldering in the garage by the dust-covered ping-pong tables, when I should have been cooking. I would play any note, and then the note a half-step below it’s fifth, until I composed the basic themes behind this long series of meditations on the interval. I discovered that be-boppers as hep as Bing Crosby himself called this the Flatted Fifth, ensuring that Diminished Fifths would continue to fascinate me, finding it popping up constantly whenever I longed for disharmony.

I herewith attempt to take what we think of modern music further from melody and harmony and further into the complexity of discordance, using a human touch no machine could ever dream to betray with it’s obligatory precision; using human hesitation, human confusion and subhuman fears; that release these pieces from the constraints of conventional composition entirely.

Formal notes accompany each piece, explaining the structure and moods conveyed.

Performing and recording Change Music in Saint Louis since 1977.

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