BBC Radio3 Interview

Dear Friends,

I hope this finds you well.

I recently spoke about my piano piece “The Arrow of Time” with Tom Service at BBC Radio3 for the New Music Show. The episode was just broadcast and is streamable for the next 30 days at the BBC website. I have made an edit of the interview below as well, for ease sake. During the course of the interview we talk a bit about how the piece uses a hand-crank siren in addition to the grand piano, Walter Marchetti, Maurice Ravel’s “Piano Concerto for the Left Hand,” the cultural phenomena of sky quakes, and finally the origins of the title: the physics term “the arrow of time” which observes time to work in forward motion just as much as in reverse.

“Jordan Dykstra: making time slow and stop — and seem to run backwards as well as forwards.” (Tom Service, BBC Radio3)

For now,

Jordan

With an ease only he possesses, pianist Reinier van Houdt — seen here at Splendor in Amsterdam — effortlessly navigates the piano and hand-crank siren double-duty for “The Arrow of Time.”