So when you impose rigorous order on musical rhythm, you are organizing human motion. You create a dialogue between the physical and the ideal: embodied human action in a structured environment. The process gives us something to strive for, to work through, to achieve with virtuosity and grace. This is the case with music, sport, dance, ritual, games, art. The dialectic between soul and science, freedom and discipline, self and non-self — dare I say it? That’s culture in a nutshell.
It is this very dialogue — this sustained interaction between ourselves and the world around us — that I wish to make audible through music. That’s true whether it’s my own compositions, arrangements of familiar songs, ensemble projects, or perhaps most revealingly, solo concerts like the one I’ll be playing at the London jazz festival. That will be a sustained interaction between my body, the piano, history, memory, numbers, acoustics and the audience.
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