“A lot of texture, a lot of notes. You have to fit it under a cello, which is not always easy, because the cello can be drowned out by all these notes.

This compositional technique of alternating between two notes at an increasing speed has long been employed by composers, including by Antonín Dvořák in his 1893 work New World Symphony. John ...

Slate + Ash's latest release is Primaries / Strings, the inaugural instrument in a new series dubbed Primaries that "treats performance as a fundamental colour in the orchestral spectrum". At the ...