matheme

[2016]

for bass flute, bass clarinet, contrabass, violin, alto trombone, piano

duration: 14 min

commissioned by: mise-en ensemble

first performance: 24 October, 2016; mise-en ensemble; New York, USA

score published by BabelScores

The matheme indicates a relationship, where the relationship is problematic, unstable and continuously open to re-negotiation. Two separated trios playing separate music. The ambiguity of where this music can meet seems to endorse the notion of a ‘transitive’ space – a matheme, creating an invisible third space perhaps.