"scion stems"

This string trio was commissioned by Punkt Festival 2011. The curator for this year is David Sylvian, to whom the work is dedicated.

In this piece I wanted to start with one texture and transform the music into all sort of different textures. It is as if you are working on one sample of a recording and first you process it electronically to make a completely different sound, then you split the spectrum of sound into even more different textures.
Rather than just lining up the contrasting textures one after the other, I wanted to expose the more organic process of transformation, which happens when you play around with knobs and lever (values) in effectors in computer music.

Yours
dai