TRIO : In Space Enlaced

The present piece is a re-composition and extension of an earlier trio for bass flute, cor anglais and viola. Throughout the piece the three instruments find themselves entangled in various contrapuntal and heterophonic webs. The individual identities merge into a collective entity. I was inspired by the surreal expression of love David Gascoyne's poem "Antennae": The timeless sleepers tangled in the bed In the midst of the sonorous island, alone The tongue between the teeth The river between the sands Love in my hand like lace Your hand enlaced with mine.