About the creation

Instinct 72 was awarded the Samuel Liberson Prize, 1973. The piece starts out as a tape recording of the composer playing the electric organ. This was then put down in the shape of an instinctive, imprecise drawing in order to coordinate the temporal execution of the score by the brass players, whose role is eleatoric - i.e. free in point of rhythm and stemming from instinctive reactions (while performing together) both to the sound of the recording and to the sight of written music.  The work is based on various combinations of 5 notes - a sort of mini-Maqam, holding out both a promise of stylistic unity and a reference (in style and content) to the ancient music of the Oriental communities. It is concerned with such matters as points, lines and planes in time and in space - a variety of forms and a melange of colliding sounds, the tensions among them and their temporal and spatioal significance as music.