String Trio No. 1
Instrumentation: violin, viola, cello
Type: ensemble
Year: 2013
Premiere: Performed by Node Ensemble, 8th March 2013, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.
Duration: 4’30
This string trio is an exercise in isorhythmic techniques. I chose a series of 7 pitches as my color and applied them to an order of rhythms called a talea. At different times during the piece, this process is disrupted by more freely structured rhythmic sections.