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Inst:2 vln, vla, vc, db

        Date:2016

        Duration:4'40"




        Performances:* 2024 World premiere: Contemporaneous Ensemble, Brooklyn, NY



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Program note: A continuous interplay of rhythmic currents that intersect each other, swell in momentary confluences, and then pause briefly in respite, only to resume once more. This piece arose as a translation of emotional fluctuations that I was feeling in the face of political unrest and societal disruptions.