0,10, suprematism for ensemble

The title alludes to the final exhibition of the Cubo-Futurists, where Malevich’s Suprematist canvases, including the first Black Square, were first displayed. The piece represents an attempt to follow him into the realm of "zero form." Not literally, of course, because in a time-based art form, "zero form" is fundamentally different from what it is in spatial art. All the sound material exists within the realm of "relationships between colored planes" (Malevich’s own definition of suprematism). The work is structured like a treatise: the preface and nine chapters address the same subject from various perspectives. They are separated by long intervals spanning non-integer numbers of semitones such as a neutral third, a "not-quite" fourth, a "not-quite" sixth, and so on.