Suite Suite was written for Esther Lamneck, who along with Keith Underwood and Martha Locker has recorded it for Innova ("The Phenomenon of Threes" Innova 710).

The 1st movement - flowing - contrasts flowing scales in all the instruments with playful skips. Blurring (2nd movement) follows, contrasting with Wildly, a quasi-improvised section which reaches a climax and then fades away almost to nothing.

Song comes next (3rd movement) with my version of an Asian tune played in the shakuhachi style of the Japanese flute. Mirrors, follows (the instruments play mirror images or each others' tunes). Finally, the last movement: Gigabytes. The title here came before the music. It is a would-be pun on the Italian for "gigue" or "jig" which concludes all of Bach's Suites for the keyboard, and the computer term. The only problem is that the Giga in Italian is soft, as in Bach's Giga, while, of course, the computer term is a hard Ghiga. Oh well, when I wrote this piece (2002) I knew more about Bach than computers! There is even a bit (byte?) of a Bach Giga in this movement, which faithfully follows the Bach convention of a repeated opening section with 1st and 2nd endings.

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