Program note:

Interle[a]ve is a work that explores the perception of multiple musical ideas at once. While writing it, I became interested in a film editing technique called 'crosscutting' and how it might be applied to music. In a movie with multiple protagonists in different locations with independent goals, an editor may choose to unfold the story in such a way that their stories are told in parallel by jumping from one to the other. The events and emotions of each story line often parallel one another, cuing the audience to fill in any gaps in time on their own.

In a similar way, Interle[a]ve jumps from one idea to another. The piece is a set of 6 variations. Instead of each unfolding in succession, though, the music constantly jumps from one variation to another. The music is written using an eleven pitch system, with the twelfth pitch (A natural) acting as a sort of sonic device that triggers these 'edits'.