Three Songs. Temporum (2022)

for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano

Three Songs. Temporum is a part of Songs, a series of pieces in which I explore possibilities for 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 wind players’ 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.

Commissioned by Ensemble Temporum