Part:Counterpart
written by Chris McCully
In experimenting, I've enjoyed taking a simple composition and breaking it down with various methods. This transforms the original composition into something new, but it also begins to lose what the original had to say.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and I want to dive a little deeper and explore ideas as a sort of tangible substance. Already we're comparing ideas against their translations and evolutions, but what happens if we present them both within the context of the other?
Additionally, what if we present both of these ideas with echoes and tangents, discussion around the ideas and their practical applications instead of imagined? Sure, these aren't our idea, or even our translation, but they exist only because the originals do.
How does this change our opinion of the original? Is every idea destined to be picked apart and reimagined forever until it's an echo which bears only a faint resemblance?
Where is the line between our translation/counterpart and an echo?
I'm hoping that isn't too abstract, but these are the ideas I wanted to explore with this piece. We have our Part, the original idea, named as such only because of the existence of its Counterpart, otherwise it would just be a form with a name given to it because of anything else.
We can view the Part by itself(1), with its Counterpart(2), or only the Counterpart(3), with no context of what it once was. All within the context of its echoes and tangents, at varying distances from the original.
I hope the concept sits well with you! I'll be working a bit to tune this, but it will be ready soon, and I'll share news as soon as possible :)