Slow Summer Stay I

"My pieces Streams und Lakes are a part of a series of „sister pieces“ called Slow Summer Stay. Both are written for the same mixed octet and use mostly the same material, which is all about movement (Streams) or stillness (Lakes) in and out the passage of time. The materials are organized so differently that they shift their meaning in this sense when they move from Lakes to Streams. The culmination of the series is in the piece Upstream. This is a piece for two octets where Lakes and Streams are placed over each other which some changes. The simultaneous / non simultaneous presentation and cueing of the two creates a loose palindromic cannon." – Chaya Czernowin