Programme note

Montage takes as its starting point an ostinato figure that features in some of Mantombi Matotiyana’s Umrhubhe bow music. I’ve utilized both this figure (and its major 2nd pitch configuration) as well as field recordings of a wedding celebration, wind chimes and other sounds, to create a short audio collage (or montage) that cycles through various musical ‘scenes’. Montage is written in memory of my former teacher Jürgen Bräuninger, in response to his concept of the ‘bowscape’.