violin, viola, cello, and double bass
13 minutes, 30 seconds
2003

“Quartet for Strings,” rather than “String Quartet” due to the inclusion of a bass instead of the second violin. Those low notes, and the mellower timbre of the bass, were needed here. A prime example of the kind of “abstract” composition that was a particular interest of mine at the time (and has remained an interest, to be explored in various ways). Here can be discerned a touch of formalism, even geometricism: the sense that the various musical elements inhabiting this piece are “things,” somehow—and they can be positioned in such a way as to shed light on each other and the whole.