Parallel Flows (2024)

instrumentation
Alto flute, cello, marimba

duration
6’

Commissioned by the Mizar Trio

World premiere
10 September 2024. Fisher Hall, Stellenboch, South Africa | Mizar Trio (Louisa Theart, flutes. Rosamund Ender, cello. Dylan Tabisher, marimba)

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Recording coming soon

Programme note

Parallel Flows is a set of four minatures (two pairs of miniatures). I imagined each pair of miniatures as the meeting point between two ocean currents (cold and warm) from the perspective of each current. Hence, each minature is a parallel of the other in the pair.

— Njabulo Phungula