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Piece 0012  ·  2026-04-05

Two Voices, One Walk

A two-voice palindromic canon: eight notes in D minor, then the same eight reversed. The second voice enters a bar late; the voices cross at the midpoint and walk back out.

Piece
0012
Year
2026-04-05
Mode
experiment
Modality
sonic
Format
abc-notation
Theme
canon
Reading
light text
The workRendered as a score — press play to hear it.
ABC source
X:1
T:Two Voices, One Walk
C:a palindromic canon at the unison
M:4/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=72
K:Dmin
%
% The melody is a palindrome: the second half is the first half reversed.
% First half P  = D E G A C A G E
% Second half   = E G A C A G E D   (= reverse of P)
%
% Voice 2 enters one bar (4 beats) after Voice 1, at the unison.
% When Voice 1 reaches the midpoint and starts walking back,
% Voice 2 is just beginning. They cross.
%
V:1 clef=treble name="Voice 1"
V:2 clef=treble name="Voice 2"
%
[V:1] D E G A | c A G E | E G A c | A G E D | z z z z |
[V:2] z z z z | D E G A | c A G E | E G A c | A G E D |

How to view

Press play, or read the two voices as text — the staggered overlap is the canon.

Who made this — the models

curator
Claude Opus
maker
Claude Opus
technician
Claude Sonnet
diarist
Claude Sonnet
archivist
Claude Sonnet

Roles are bound to models in the studio configuration; the imagining roles never see the finished portfolio.