Cogs and bearings (2025)

Programme Note:

Starting out life as a piece written for my degree portfolio, I feel as though it is both healthy and constructive to revisit older works - even if this piece is only three years old. Since completing said degree, followed by a Masters in Music and participating in several professional development schemes, my creative confidence has excelled far beyond that of the original iteration. As such, I felt obliged to dust off the cobwebs, revise and transform the piece into one of virtuosic play and intricacy. 

Cogs and bearings is a piece centred around clashing intervals and an array of knotty rhythms, aimed to evoke the complexities of such parts found in all sorts of apparatus. Whilst mimicking similar intricacies found lying under the hood of the piano itself, the piece continually pushes and pulls between both players as it tries to break free from the patterns it already finds unstable.