This special collaboration started with an email exchange with producer Jessica Carson. In our exchange she indicated that Octave Records was interested in expanding its recorded offerings to feature more classical music options for their discerning clientele. Octave is the production arm of PS Audio, a celebrated maker of hi-fidelity speakers and audio equipment.

Recording fidelity and quality is a critical part of helping PS Audio customers to have the best possible listening experience with their hardware. When I met the founder of PS Audio, Paul McGowan, I immediately recognized that this was an opportunity for me to create recordings for a special community of people for whom active listening was a way of life. I set to work on writing new music for this project that would reward these attentive listeners with music that would weave the independent lines of the instruments in way subtle and overt. The resulting hour of recorded material will draw you into the very room where we recorded (pictured at right). I had the pleasure of again working with my collaborator Benjamin Harding, as well as creating a new work for clarinetist Kwami Barnett.

This recording will give you the closest experience to a live performance that recordings can ever provide. I hope you enjoy it!