This piece is called ‘4 Position’.
A graphical score that relies on only four different instruments or performers. Each performer would play a sequence repeatedly with a different time signature and tempo from the other performers. Despite this desynchrony, each performers’ part affects another’s part, affecting things like accenting a note, using tremolo, using more or less distortion, et cetera.
‘4 Position’ is trying to recontextualise the sounds of four different instruments, constantly changing for relationships between them, breaking away from what would be expected from such instruments.
Change, is it always good? Is breaking away from the status quo always righteous, always with the best for humanity, always for the greater good. It only takes 1 misshapen cog to stop a whole machine but it also only takes one dissenter to cause a revolution.
But why ‘4 Position’? it’s a simple concept. All of the parts are different, different in difficulty, scope and meaning; however, the same cannot be said for importance. Each part has a relationship with every other part, unique relationships that constantly affect the sound they make. Even when that relationship changes, ebbs and flows, it is still there and it’s still just as important, it is only when that relationship stops that the 4 position collapses in on itself.
As is the notion of the ‘4 Position’ finds harmony amongst themselves than with those outside of the system.