serial: un(be)com(in)ing

serial(un)be(com)in(ing) combines aspects of serial composition, in this case the use of a 12-note row to generate all of the work's material, with elements of freely extemporised composition. The piece begins with strict serial rules governing the order of the pitches but as it develops the rules loosen, first with regard to repetition of shorter loops and phrases and then the stricture of the tone-row collapse entirely, allowing for material that the system has provided to be freely manipulated by my intuitive sense of where it should go.