Written for the pianist Kristi Becker for her 50th birthday, Kuri Suti Bekar consists of a Prelude and a Chaconne.

The twelve-second Prelude is a sonic translation of the pianist’s name written in Japanese Katakana script – the right hand plays [ku-ri-su-ti] and the left hand simultaneously [bek-ka-ro] (the closest one gets phonetically), the vertical graphic axis being that of pitch and the horizontal that of time.

A similar graphic pitch/time representation of the Chaconne shows 10 successive “pictures” corresponding to the ten pages (at 16 seconds each) of the score. A superimposition of these ten images approximates a scanned photograph of the pianist’s face. Please watch the video below.