A playful homage built from transformed fragments of a hit by Michael Jackson, the piece flips familiar rhythms, pitches, and harmonies into a fresh, reimagined sound world.
Premiered by: Andrew Harrison (soprano saxophone), Josh Moore (electric guitar), Dzovig Markarian (keyboard), and Huei-Yuan Pan (percussion)
Venue: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Sydegt is not a real word. Heck, it’s not even a word at all — it’s actually an acronym based off of one of the ‘king of pop’s’ hit tunes. All the pitches, harmonies, and rhythms in Sydegt come from MJ himself — it’s all in there, but completely flipped around and told from my own perspective. In a sense, this chart can be construed as an “hommage a Jackson,” and in a lot of ways, is. But we’ll just call it Sydegt.
