ODTRG (2008)

ODTRG is a Slovenian word meaning “shred”, and is a curiosity on account of its preponderance of consonants. Permutations of the five letters of this title can be used to form a variety of everyday words in the Slovenian language, such as “od” (from), “do” (to), “to” (that), “drg” (friction), “god” (name-day), “gor” (upwards), “grd” (ugly), “rog” (horn), “rod” (generation), “tod” (here), “tog” (rigid), “trd” (hard), “trg” (market) and “drog” (pole). Individual percussive impulses are organised into arpeggiando figures, equivalent to the different pronunciations of the consonant-heavy words from that list.

Alwyn Tomas Westbrooke