Music archive entry

If you want to spend some time analysing the music, search (very clearly in the first section) for the four phrases of the well-known canon "Brother Jacob". These phrases are deconstructed (in the sense of Derrida - another Jacques) and the fragments are "reconstructed" again. Only that they sound in different tonalities and at different speeds and with some changes in the octave position of the individual notes. Besides, one phrase is inverted and another is in minor.

After this introduction, each of the four sections concentrates on those four phrases, but applying fractal techniques, so the original melody is not so easy to recognize. The audience is anyway not expected to recognize the canon in these four sections (although one can recognize something of the original melody, with good will, if one knows that it is there). These devices are used just to achieve a solid skeleton for the music.

"The Ripper" is both an allusion to the procedure of deconstructing and a sort of homage to London, his centre of activities. Of course, "Jacques/Jack" make the liaison.