This album features 77 canons on “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” that started as classroom examples and ended in contrapuntal madness. You’ll find rounds, mirror canons, crab canons, sloth canons, mirror-crab-sloth canons, and canons that, as Douglas Hofstadter would describe, stretch J.S. BACH to John CAGE. (A horrifying thought.) Completed during the COVID pandemic, they reflect a journey through darkness and hope.

Nathan Lam: Symmetricon – 77 Canons, Album Cover Canon
Nathan Lam: Symmetricon – 77 Canons, Crab Nebula

The 77 Canons were premiered in 2022 at MIT in a lecture-recital on symmetry in music, presented by Nathan Lam and played by Jihye Chang.

Released September 2024