Seis Bagatelas (Owl Bagatelles) - for Saxophone Quartet.

This piece originated with an electronic sampler, and eventually, I became obsessed with finding a way to port over my experimentation there into this ensemble. Like the story, the idea of obsession, start-stop, the struggle of reality and time as it continuously marches on, and the contrast of the real vs the imagined governs the decisions in this piece. The bagatelles elucidate high contrast – both within the movements and from each other –  and different moods, while retaining a larger teleological directive of start-stop. The music whirls, sometimes slows down, and finally races towards a finish line of repose, with unresolved harmonies ringing out into eternity.