Ayre: Towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of

This piece with its long poetic name is a small window looking, as with a microscope, into what makes small things move, what makes tissues of moving noise/sounds into a song. The instruments in the piece focus on very small areas of movement. In these areas repeated restricted material seems to be dragged on various surfaces. In the second part of the piece the miniscule and effortful movements open the musical space to an unexpected negative space. ’Negative space’ here can be seen as a musical continuity which evokes a notion of place, rather than that of an event or process. This space is revealed and is formed by the musical actions and sounds. These sounds and actions frame, curve and give rise to the space between them which is a space of deep colored silence. Chaya Czernowin