Study in Centre & Width

for two cellos in a reverberant space

This piece attempts to explore two intervals (perfect 5th and major 6th) and their juxtapositions, using the resonance of the violoncello to emphasise their consonance in a dream-like miniature. 

When interlocked, these intervals form a third interval, a major second (between the 5th and 6th degrees of the scale). The piece uses this inherent third interval as its underlying basis – our tonal centre shifts from G to A as the piece progresses (before arriving back at G). 

The name of the piece refers to this idea of exploring intervallic width as a way of focusing on the ‘centre’ or resonant essence of sound.

[ Vc., Vc. ]