String Quartet

2023 | 7′

Premiered by the Carducci String Quartet at the Chiltern Arts Festival

In physics, as in philosophy, people often focus on the extremes, but most of the interesting things happen in between. They happen on a scale larger than the very small and smaller than the very large, between the momentary and the permanent, and on the slope between the low entropy past and the high entropy future. The warp and the weave of the world, the patterns with their samenesses and differences, the frozen accidents, the temporary stabilities, the different paces of change, the ebbs and the flows, and the things that rise and fall against different phases of ebb and flow make up the familiar texture of our daily world.

— Jenann Ismael

The music of warp and weave echoes this web of interweaving processes, unfolding between motion and stasis, regularity and irregularity, emergence and decay. Musical materials come into focus, overlap, and recede, forming a fabric that is continually reshaped over time.