At one point in the piece an undulant oom-pah-pah pattern in the left hand drops out, leaving the right hand to veer off into a descending cascade of spiraling passagework.
There are many from my twenties and thirties, a giant mop of spirals cascading down my back.
Sometimes these organic shapes float horizontally in space, like waterlilies on a pond, or hovering UFOs (which is what they are, fundamentally, since none is entirely figurative); sometimes they cascade in torrential spirals.
While relatively simple cause-effect relationships exist in the work of care - such as if a medicine dosage is either missed or overdosed then an untoward event can occur - the interrelationships among elements in each category with the WOC system can create downward or upward spirals of cascading events.
Cy Twombly's painting Bacchus is a fleshy cascade of red painted spirals – or are they half-formed letters?
It seems that for a lot of people, including my wife, once a migraine gets going, once that vicious death spiral of cascading neurochemicals has begun, there is no way out.
They must not allow themselves to become the victims of a downward spiral of cascading events.
The chorus, "Change, change your life, take it all/We gonna stick together, know we get through it all", is pledged by the group in harmony over a spiralling piano lines, cascading keyboard lines and rousing, chugging strings.
Glancing around the campus, stairs of marble, metal, wood, and cement spiral and cascade.
Long episodes evolve in arcs of brilliant piano writing where restless, filigreed, spiraling figures cascade down the keyboard.
