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In the 1990s I was working on my first orchestral piece, Nimbus, at Goildsmiths' College, London, with Peter Dickinson. After hearing a recording of Edgard Varèse's Arcana my whole musical outlook changed: I now wanted to find a way of constructing a huge wall of sound (in the Varèse sense, not Phil Spectre!). However, unlike Arcana, I wanted a language more in sympathy with a post-modern perspective, using non-referential tonality, repetition and blocks of sound. Streaming was born and Nimbus never saw the light of day. Writing Streaming changed my music irrevocably: I was on a new path and I turned my back on Modernism for good.
This engraving of the score was prepared in 'cutaway' style. There are one or two minor graphical oddities introduced by a later version of the software I was using at the time, which this pdf has unfortunately retained.