"Unsettled Resonance" genre: Piano
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	This is a solo piano piece I used to explore compositional techniques I had not previously used. The performance was by Flora Chan during concert of 21st century piano music held at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia on October 22, 2001. It is not a perfect performance but it was the first public performance the piece received.
	Story Behind the Song This piece was an experiment in the resonant capabilities provided by the sustenato pedal of the piano. The notes sustained by the pedal are sustained throughout the piece and never struck, adding a strange echo-like resonance to the silences and a very unfinished or unsettled sound to the ending. As another experiment the right and left hands were written seperately with no regard to what the other was doing. The only connection between the two is that they remain in the same mode of the same scale at all times. Everything else was written independently and put together at the end. No adjustments were made after the juxtaposition of the two. There is one central chord in this piece, an augmented 7th chord, which resolves in many different ways. The piece always goes back to this chord and resolves in a new way. If you omit the chord and string the resolutions together it creates a fairly simple tonal chord progression. This, plus a small bit of music to bookend the beginning and end, is the structure of the piece.

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