Description
A tessera (pl. tesserae) is an individual tile in a mosaic. This piece is constructed like a mosaic from several strongly differentiated musical fragments, which are repeated and juxtaposed. No two repetitions are exactly the same however, just as individual tiles tend to have minute differences. Furthermore, as the piece proceeds the more similar types of fragment tend to attract each other and form more continuous spans, in the same way that individual tesserae in a mosaic group together to form larger patterns.
Tesserae was generously commissioned by John Grimshaw for David Goode, who gave the first performance at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford on 25 May, 2009. John Pickard
Duration 11 minutes
