Colin Marshall talks to Jeremy Haladyna, director of UCSB’s Ensemble

for Contemporary Music and composer of the sprawling

28-piece-and-counting Mayan Cycle.

Drawing upon over twenty years of research and exploration, Haladyna

has translated countless concepts from Mayan thought, art and

architecture into music that counts strings, flutes, scratch turntables

and even sampled paper towel dispensers among its sonic components. An

album of selections from the Mayan Cycle is now available from Innova

Recordings.