SKU: FT.FM634

ISBN 9790570485338.

For the opening bar, the performers are to begin the individual parts offstage, walking to their designated posi ons while playing the percussive of textural effects. Players may reach their posi ons freely in their own me but it is necessary to reach their places no later than bar 12. The func ons of the layers of material in this piece are o en changing roles slowly, allowing something that was a background texture to develop into something featured in the foreground, and vice versa. The transi ons between these roles are o en ambiguous, therefore keen a en on to dynamic balance is necessary to avoid the overall sound from becoming too clu ered or opaque. Balance voices mostly for transparency but allow material with notated accents, staccato marks or tenutos to stand out against the rest. Regarding rhythm, the exact tempo changes during accelerando or ritardando are not as important as a general feeling of surge and release. It is suggested that the 7/8 signature be conducted as one pulse for each bar, except where it is crucial to play rhythms precisely, for example at places of orchestrated crescendo in 8th notes (e.g. bar 136). This is in the interest of the feeling of me flowing subjec vely, in streams and ripples as in a dream.