A brief follow up to the expanse of THE ISLE, MORNING PRELUDES is a reminder that ephemeral musical gestures unbeknownst to the originator sometimes will find their way into permanence as they so perfectly capture the vitality of a given process or state of flow. This set of two spontaneously composed pieces performed the morning of the session, which formed the basis for THE ISLE, foreshadowed the focus and intensity of what would define the day. 

There is a beauty to the earliest hints of consciousness and movement as the mind and body act together without much consideration for anything other than being in a new environment devoid of expectation, but open to possibility. Surrounded by structure and sound, choices can be made to employ static and deploy gestures.

Crane and Binney bring the focus, almost paradoxically, onto these two striking performances which mask themselves as a beginning, but also reveal that they might be a memory or a foretelling. There is nostalgia in their process.  It evokes the image of a droplet of water suspended on the delicate yet formidable strands of a spider’s web. Eventually it will move on, but the texture and tactility of that motion will unfold as the moment oscillates, unforced but for the gentle nudge of gravity and the deft movements of this telepathic duo.. Gravity is evident in the evolving process we get to experience as Crane and Binney continually move forward with purpose while not leading us anywhere in particular, We wander into the midst of an idea, waltzing through the centre of a thought.