Written for Unheard-Of//Ensemble. First performance by Unheard-Of//Ensemble (Ford Fourqurean, clarinet; Matheus Souza, violin; Iva Casian-Lakoš, cello; Daniel Anastasio, piano) at Confluence Park in San Antonio, TX in August 2025.

Duration: ca. 6 minutes

PROGRAM NOTE
EXCENTRIC KINETICS draws its name from George Rickey's kinetic sculpture at the McNay Museum in San Antonio "Horizontal Column of Five Squares, Excentric II". The rectangular tablets featured in this artwork spin around and around one another asynchronously while the platform rotates the entire artwork around. This piece utilizes melody in the same way -- each instrument playing the same unwinding gestures, but never together. Dancing around one another, the tension of delay and separation between every moving line leads to satisfying moments of cohesion in rare instances.

PERFORMANCES
Unheard-Of//Ensemble performs excentric kinetics at Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, OH as part of their Ohio Tour in November 2025.

Unheard-Of//Ensemble performs excentric kinetics at Ohio University in Athens County, OH as part of their Ohio Tour in November 2025.

Unheard-Of//Ensemble performs excentric kinetics at South Oxford Space in New York, NY in November 2025.

Unheard-Of//Ensemble premieres excentric kinetics at Confluence Park in San Antonio, TX in August 2025.

Recording by Unheard-Of//Ensemble in August 2025 in San Antonio, TX.