intertwine

2019
/
Chamber

Details

Category

Chamber

instrumentation

basson & bass clarinet

duration

8'

commissioned by

The Rossini Club

premiered by

Nicholas Davies, bass clarinet & Ivy Ringel, bassoon

Purchase Score

intertwine is inspired by MJ Levy-Dickson's birds nest drawings. In her artwork, I was instantly attracted to the intimacy of design in both her interpretation of the birds nests and also the intricacies of the birds' work. The continuous, although sometimes circuitous lines could easily be related to musical lines and the collaborative nature of a duo. Working with two instruments in the reed family - and another reed-y sounding instrument, the melodica - I imagined these two parts as a mother bird and a baby bird as the latter gradually learns how to leave the nest.