Episodes

Major life events are expressed in six piano pieces.

Iebel Abel about Episodes: "I wrote Episodes on invitation of Samuel Joyce, who was fascinated by my musical experiments with randomness. I have never been interested in 'random music' per se. Creating 'random music' has never been my goal. My interest in randomness is based on the idea that randomness is fundamental to life as we know it. A 'system' devoid of 'randomness' would by definition be so rigid that it could only be lifeless. The beauty of life lies in its ability to organize itself, gathering what it needs to sustain. This is often referred to as negative entropy, the opposite of decay, the opposite of pure disorder. And yet, without randomness, life would become too structured to be alive. That's why I believe randomness is a fundamental creative property of life itself. There are many things in the behavior of all kinds of living creatures that are familiar to me. I think we are of the same kind. We don't act random, we simply adapt in a world that is too overwhelming to comprehend. It seems random, but it is not. The world we observe is alive, complex, and beautiful."