In each of these three pieces there is a constant element in the form of a musical fragment whose repetition permeates the whole. The effect is the suspension of sound in time, and the performer needs patience in playing this music, as one never moves far from home.

From the Composer

These pieces present rhythmic puzzles which allude to corresponding visual illusions. Solar Eclipse explores the rhythmic ratio 3:4. The syncopation within this ratio generates a vortex of rhythmic gravity within a harmonic structure whose visual counterpart is the process of a perfect eclipse of the sun. In Time-Lapse Photograph, a simple rising motive in the left hand repeats over and over  -  each time becoming a little longer. Independently, the right hand develops a more syncopated, "blurred" melodic line. Once the photograph is "coloured in" it fades away (in a similar fashion to Solar Eclipse). A M√∂bius strip (as drawn by M.C. Escher) is a length of paper looped and joined at the ends but with one end turned around 180 degrees. This creates an object with only one plane, since the front merges into the back and vice versa. The musical "allusion" is based around the opening 5-note cell, which loops seamlessly upon itself, expanding and contracting like a M√∂bius strip. Toward the end it modulates pivotally through the flat cycle of keys, launching upwards into infinity.