Continuo

Continuo (‘continuous’, - ‘persistent’) playfully investigates tempo-illusions not unlike the visual illusions in Rudolf Eschers well-known drawings, where one is tricked into believing that the water in a streaming flood runs upwards, or that people ascending winding stairs are in fact getting nowhere. The musical illusion is a tempo which seems to get faster or slower, continuously, endlessly.
The piece was written at San Cataldo, a wondeful Danish resort in the mountains over the Amalfi coast in southern Italy, for a flute/guitar duo Most & Kunz staying there at the time.