Meanwhile Escher was also concerned with a problem to which he returned
at intervals throughout his life--the transposition of music into graphic
representation. He talked about this to his father, who later noted in his
diary that his son was so obsessed with the problem that it gave him sleepless
nights. [from M.C. Escher, His Life and Complete Graphic Work]
I have been fascinated by the prints of the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher
since I was a boy. His work has been an ongoing inspiration to me as I have
tried to find musical analogies to the "serious games" he played
in his graphic work. The following pieces were written for a multimedia show
that the harpist Eleanor Turner and I created with the hip-hop dancer Lizzie
Gough in 2012, and are now out on CD--check it out here!
