Following

Following is loosely based on “Following Piece” by the performance artist Vito Acconci. The music plays on the idea of following or being followed. The simultaneous presence of two or more distinct metrical ideas represents two people walking at different paces. These ideas occasionally converge into a more unified statement, where the characters interact in some way. As the follower’s intentions are uncovered in the frantic final section, the music launches into a chase characterized by imitative motivic fragments that interject themselves at unanticipated moments.