Jürg Frey: clarinet
Joanna Lewis: violin
Russell McGregor: violin
Margit Waller: viola
Eva Reiter: viola da gamba


For clarinet and four strings.

"012, nonostante III (2000) is scored for four string instruments and a clarinet. This piece is the most complex yet; the sustained notes are still present, but incorporate rising and falling sections, and there are numerous extraneous sounds coming in from the surrounding silence: strings pressed down, shuffling, scratching, people moving about the room. The silences here are charged, full of the aural detritus of the room, sounds that could well be part of the score, leaving the listener uncertain as to what is intended or incidental. Listening on headphones projects you into the space, but the tense, decentred nature of the music requires massive concentration to decipher what is present."