Millions of Particles Exchanging Places

Millions of Particles Exchanging Places came about as a sort of musical exchange with the performers. I had performed a piece written by Silvina Wainszelbaum and then I wrote this piece for her. The piece plays with the sonic nuances of the flute and piano timbres mixing and shifting together. This piece also exemplifies some writing using the TONL method. You can hear how the impression of a musical key is hinted at but never fully established. This is something I have been interested in and working with for the past few months in my compositions. As is common with my compositional process I often work on a few pieces at the same time, which sometimes results in pieces sharing material, or having similar characteristics. Other times this results in having pieces be totally contrasting; I focus all of one emotion into one piece and all of another emotion into another piece and keep them strictly separated. Something else that occasionally happens is that I write a piece for one ensemble and then ‘arrange’ it for another ensemble, but during the arranging process I allow the piece to be manipulated. In a strict sense this isn’t an arrangement. Millions of Particles Exchanging Places also appears in my piece Four Poems Without Words for piano quartet. It functions as the second movement in the four movement work and follows more or less the same structure of this version for flute and piano but lacks the improvisatory middle section.

Aitana Kasulin, Piano
Silvina Wainszelbaum, Flute
20 September, 2022

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