Maintaining (2018)
String Quartet
Duration: 5.5’
Recorded by Arditti Quartet March 2019.
Winner of NUNC! 4 Call for Scores (2020), Selected for performance by Arditti Quartet.
program note
Maintaining attempts to establish a sense of control and order through strict adherence to musical materials and brutal force and focus on a strained sound. The virtuosic, off-kilter opening material circulates throughout the ensemble, folds in upon itself and reaches a bursting point. The music then disperses into a series of tiny fragments and eventually settles in a manner akin to a cloud dust finding rest upon the ground.