For the other 2 performances, I created a little multi-movement piece for electronic backgrounds and saxophone that also had me improvising over the backgrounds, but with a little more structure. Each of the movements (5 in all, with some sound efx to bridge them together into a 21 minute long piece) loosely based on something attached to Lapidus. The first movement is called "Curves," the second one "Motion," "Stairs to Nowhere" (a nod to the famous staircase in the Fountainbleau), "Never Enough," and "His Way," a nod to the Sinatra song, which he definitely related to. The first performance was cut short due to some technical difficulties that the museum was having, and tonight I'll be performing it all the way for the first time. I'm treating this performance as a "rough draft" performance, and then over the Thanksgiving and Xmas holidays, I plan to refine the sax part and properly record it in my studio so that Deb can use it in a virtual exhibition that she is planning on doing. I have to record the acoustic guitar improvs for her as well.
The best part of these performances though has been listening to the lectures, and really hearing about how Lapidus' work could be looked at in musical terms, and I found the lectures to be inspiring, and I hope to use the terms that he used to inform some of my music going forward...