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Gestus Compositus Sonus

Impetus Matter Energy

Musical Performance In-formation
written and edited by Alexi Lima

Keyboard Dexterity      Musical Composition     Acoustical Waves

Keyboard Technique             Written Score                   Aural Imagery
Gestured Conceptualization   Written Conceptualization Sonic Conceptualization

Keyboard Kinetics                 Improvisation                  Auditory Response
Gestured Realization             Unwritten Realization        Sonic Realization

Passive Processes

Active Processes

Defining the Terminologies:

Passive Process: an ongoing movement or progression conducted by perception

Active Process: an ongoing movement or progression conducted by action

Linear Process: a forward motion or contiguous development determined by the systems of a musical composition

Non-Linear Process: a forward motion or contiguous development determined by the inference of variables outside
of the systems of a musical composition

Conceptualization: the act of forming an abstract thought or idea prior to its execution

Realization: the act of executing an abstract thought or idea with the aim at a given intent

Corresponding the Terminologies:

Gestus: gestured conceptualization and/or gestured realization

Compositus: written conceptualization and/or unwritten realization

Sonus: sonic conceptualization and/or sonic realization

Impetus — Keyboard Dexterity
Matter — Musical Composition
Energy — Acoustical Waves

Decoding THE FACES OF THE DICE:

FACE #1 GESTUS:
linear and non-linear forward motions (Passive and Active Processes)

FACE #2 COMPOSITUS AND SONUS:
a linear process from written conceptualizations to sonic realizations (Passive and Active Processes)

FACE #3 SONUS AND COMPOSITUS:
a non-linear process from unwritten conceptualizations to sonic realizations (Active and Active Processes)

FACE #4 GESTUS AND COMPOSITUS:
a non-linear process from gestured realizations to sonic conceptualizations (Active and Passive Processes)

FACE #5 GESTUS AND SONUS:
a linear process from gestured conceptualizations to sonic realizations (Passive and Active Processes)

FACE #6 GESTURED SONUS:
linear and non-linear forward motions of sonic qualities (Passive and Active Processes)

Players of the DICE:

GESTUS:
gestured motions

COMPOSITUS AND SONUS:
employed by keyboarders in the execution of the literature of keyboard music. It’s widely recognized as the most
adhered process by traditional academic standards. The keyboarder interprets a musical composition according
to the specifications of the score

SONUS AND COMPOSITUS:
employed by pianist Glenn Gould, who alters the written conceptualizations of a musical composition by exposing
a given set of possible sonic conceptualizations

GESTUS AND COMPOSITUS:
employed by pianist (and keyboarder) Keith Jarrett, who bypasses the written conceptualizations of a musical
composition by spontaneously composing (improvising) from gestured realizations over sonic conceptualizations

GESTUS AND SONUS:
employed by pianist Ervin Nyiregyházi, who infers on the written conceptualizations of a musical composition
gestured conceptualizations over sonic realizations

GESTURED SONUS:
compositional motions

Other writings by Alexi Lima:
(available in this site *)

300 Years of Tonal Gravity *

Domenic Scarlatti:
The Genesis of Piano Music

Joseph Haydn:
Maximization and Minimization

Mozart’s Best Piano Music:
The Piano Concertos

Beethoven:
Triadic Music at its Limit

Frédéric Chopin:
From Originality to Posterity

Franz Liszt:
Complexities and Completions of a Life

Claude Debussy:
Six Tone Serialism

Alexander Scriabin:
The Russian Left

Sergei Prokofiev:
Tone Immersion and Rhythmic Immediacy

Nicolai Medtner:
The Decomposed Composer

Sergei Rachmaninnoff:
The Late Romanticist

Dimitri Shostakovich:
The Art of Composition from Re-composition

Arnold Schoenberg:
Twenty-four Tone Serialism

John Cage:
Timbres over Tones

Phillip Glass:
Tone Diffraction and Tone Deflection

The Piano Music of George Crumb

The Piano Music of György Ligeti

Cecil Taylor:
Generative-ism towards Pluralism

Ervin Nyiregyházi:
Interpolations and Extrapolations

Glenn Gould:
Three Dimensional Absolutism

Jazz Piano Music
Viewed as Chopin Modernism

Keith Jarrett’s Staircase:
An Art of an Artisian

Musical Fossils:
Morphological Studies and Analyses
of Piano Improvisations by Keith Jarrett

A Brief Discussion of
My Recording of The Köln Concert *

ELP (Emerson Lake & Palmer):
A Musical EncycLoPedia

The Wall:
An Opera for the 21st Century

Jimi Hendrix:
Cast in the Stratosphere