25 minutes
2001

An extended work in two attacca movements, the main influences here are Morton Feldman (particularly his For John Cage), and Witold Lutoslawski (specifically his 2nd Symphony). On the one hand, I was impelled by a desire to find a unique way to explore the structural opposition of the Lutoslawski; on the other hand, Feldman’s violin was quite simply “in my ear.” The result is a composition that may never be perfectly at rest, but which, I hope, has some feeling of “fitting together like a puzzle.”