I've been trying to find my way, in life, and as a composer, and this piece is something which came out of that process and experience. The music is really a series of gestures which repeat with small alterations, gradually exploring in one direction or another, turning back on themselves, or developing along new pathways. Gradually new ideas are formed from the fragments of previous motifs. One recurring feature throughout the piece is the tight and obsessive repetition of single pitches, and lines which closely circle around and return to those pitches. As the piece develops from the somewhat fragmented opening section, a sense of groove or rhythmic drive emerges, pushing forwards and upwards and leading eventually to a transfigured, ecstatic and energetic final series of flowing, flourishing gestures, like a flower bud finally opening to the sun.

Duration approx 6 minutes