Movement in Time is a slow-moving, atmospheric piece. In the tape part, extreme registers and sounds that, although suggestive, cannot be unequivocally linked to a natural or instrumental sound source leave its interpretation wide open. The live performers are asked to contribute to and enhance these qualities through the use of isolated, anti-melodic gestures that grow out of and tie into the sounds of the tape part. They are very rarely asked to assert an individual voice separate from the tape, but a notable exception is the bass clarinet multiphonic solo shortly after the mid-point of the piece.

For this piece, and much else, I am particularly indebted to Christos Hatzis. Without his suggestion upon hearing the tape part of the possible instrumentation, and his insistence - which took some time for me to understand - that I not “ruin the piece by writing too much ‘music’”, the piece would have been far different... and most likely far less interesting.

Performers:
Izabella Budai and Kaili Maimets, piccolos
Julia Stroud, bass clarinet
Krista Wodelet, contrabassoon
Keith Walton, tuba
Andrew Dunsmore, percussion
Ina Henning, accordion
Stephen Kreuger, double bass