Vanada

"In nearly all of Torke's music there's an implicit tension between a kind of free-form spontaneity and the tight structural control that he likes to impose on his material.

An early work, the jazz-inspired Vanada (1984) bustles with a restless urban energy but, like fast-moving people in a modern city, each element knows precisely where it is heading.

It's one of Torke's harshest scores, close in spirit to the aggressive European minimalism of Louis Andriessen" While written in the key of B Major/G♯ Minor,[1] the piece is based around an eight-note chord with a non-key bass note of D natural.

Torke was also influenced by pop musician Madonna's 1983 self-titled album, including the song "Physical Attraction".

[6] Vanada has been described as instantiating a "metallic sound world", similar in character to the work of the Dutch, minimalist composer Louis Andriessen.