An all-interval 12-tone row (serialism!) gets repeated over and over (minimalism!), but the tones are gradually revealed as 4th harmonics of implicit fundamentals (spectralism!) that get randomly (aleatoricism!) replaced, in each clarinet's part, by other harmonics.  The result is not midway between tonality and atonality, but rather, paradoxically fully committed to both logics at all times.  The harmonic cloud around the row gradually obscures its structure, and something happens at the midway point that may only seem obvious to the listener who gets to the end and goes back to the beginning.  This imparts a certain approximate symmetry (formalism!).  

The affect of the effect reminds the composer of butterfly flight, and the title refers, casually, to some recent research concerning how that all actually works.   The hidden crucial moment might suggest a "butterfly effect," but chaos theory is not literally implicated in the piece.

The practical score will call for three players even though effectively the work sounds as a mere duet.

Butterfly Waggle Vortex Rings, for clarinets

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Butterfly Waggle Vortex Rings, for clarinets

David Victor Feldman