From the titles of the pieces, to song structure, to group interplay and beyond, the music on Codebook lives and breathes in a new way. These pieces are just some examples of how the music never comes off sounding rigid or pastiche but instead as examples of a composers hand deftly working within a system and creating something entirely organic.Įvident throughout Codebook is Rudresh’s sense of humor. “D (Dee-Dee)” moves with a hint of a hard bop swing reoriented for a new audience. You can hear it in a track like “Play It Again Sam”, dedicated to Samuel Morse, where Rudresh opens and closes playing what could easily be Morse code. As with all of Rudresh’s music, the final product is quite surprising and intuitive. All of this is to say that another structure of order has been applied to music, but has been done so with such care and thought that the result sounds in no way formulated. A standard could be transformed into an entirely fresh piece, a melody conceived by encoding words or phrases, and cyclic rhythms reorganized by way of a cipher. The varied systems provided the groundwork for Rudresh to approach the DNA of the compositions from fresh and previously unexplored angles. The music on Codebook stems from ideas and concepts related to cryptography. Once again the outside world has provided a launching point and a system of order to draw from for Rudresh.
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