The richness of the music of the sub-contient is an eternal inspiration, showing music to be the fusion and balance of opposites: improvisation and calculation, freedom and form, rhythm and melody.

Indian musical thinking has acted through thecenturies as a model for articulating thought through sound.

I have based my piece on an Indian temple dance in which a short motivic nugget generates garlands and trails of sonic colour.

The raga-form is maintained, with anintruduction...