I’ve found a lot of use out of musical cryptography over my career. The essential premise is turning text into strings of notes on which to base a composition. I have a cypher I like to use, and build words up into chords (the first letter becoming the root, the second over that, etc.). Then the trick is to make a musically interesting product with the pre-generated material.

It has worked really well with some texts, like the attached example. I’ve been fascinated with both music and language, and combined them for “Pangrams.” Each movement is a short character study based on a particular English pangram - a sentence containing all letters of the English alphabet.

Pangrams - world premiere recording, Lviv Philharmonic: https://youtu.be/OlBugtsxim0?si=23UUFeZJ1EF7nETM