the köln konzert was written to celebrate the launch of mewantemooseic, which was held at the white noise bar, köln.
when i started thinking about playing in köln, i knew i had to do something really special in deference to the city's recent musical history. the idea of using keith jarrett's 'köln concert' as a starting point initially made me giggle, but listening to the piece made me realise that there were musical nuggets that i could extract and use.
the piece is made up of five parts: part one [15:29] is built around the first five notes of keith jarrett's piece. part two [3:51] introduces his main theme, as well as some thematic motifs of my own. part three [7:26] is also built around an extracted cluster, this time of eleven notes. part four [7:28] has nothing whatsoever to do with the original piece, but is based on another track i'd been working on, gliss-gluss. finally, part five [8:33] is a return and collapse of the main theme(s).