for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
This piece is a part of Songs, a series of pieces in which I explore possibilities of producing and experiencing time through attentive listening and how those affect musicians’ interactions.
In the first and third songs, the temporal organisation grows out of the durations of decaying sounds of the piano and the strings’ pizzicato. In the second, the clarinettist’s breathing becomes the larger-scale measure of time, coming into a dialogue with the decaying sounds of the rest of the ensemble.
Having no external measure of time imposed on them, musicians follow the natural time cycles to find a shared feeling of duration while playing together.
This was the first piece written for and in close collaboration with, Kali Ensemble: İdil, Beste, Giuseppe, and Nirantar. Their personalities and creative input directly shaped the way the piece sounds.
Danya Pilchen 