Year: 2011 instrumentation: flute, clarinet and bass trombone duration: 3′
For: 175 East premiered: 175 East cond. Samuel Holloway
Further performances: 175 East cond. Hamish McKeich
Programme note: The formula for realising this work:
– take existing quartet (2010)
– delete guitar and cello parts
– rearrange and pare down surviving flute and clarinet parts
– add bass trombone part
Why?
I’ve been interested in continuous recontextualisation of materials (transformed or unchanged) within single works for some time now; if I rip entire chunks from an existing piece and use them to build something else, to what extent is the resulting work new, and to what extent is it related? – and can this relatedness even be detected?
Furthermore, is composing in my usual mode as dependent on such high levels of compositional struggle as I had previously held it to be?
But primarily: this is the first work written since the arrival of my son about a year ago; time for composition remains limited and rapid solutions must be found