greys by Sofía Rocha published on 2020-12-06T15:19:51Z greys is a piece meant to explore and evoke a sound-world somewhat different than what we may be used to. It requires the performer to prepare their guitar, such that the frets do not create evenly spaced half-steps, like usual, but instead create unevenly spaced intervals that are between a half-step and whole-step. This is in a way a transformative process on the guitar—while the tone remains similar, the structure of how pitch is organized is fundamentally modified, both allowing for new possibilities while simultaneously disallowing the normal. Thus, it is meant, for both audience and performer, to thrust us into somewhere new, without option to return to where we once were. Old actions have new results. Recording by Jay Sorce | http://www.jaysorce.com/ Premiered as part of the Hypercube Composition Lab Genre Classical