Recently I feel an increasing need to limit my musical material, inspired by the concept of a ‘monolith‘, a composition made out of one single piece of stone.

It’s a composition in 9 parts. Every part basically uses the same musical material, with one significant difference: the tempo. It starts very slow but the tempo increases with every new part. After part 5 the tempo decreases and the piece ends with the initial tempo.

Like all my organ pieces, this one was written for Huub ten Hacken.