Part of the fun of the album is that your ears play tricks with your memory of the original: these familiar melodies do unexpected things, resulting in an experience that's both disturbing yet full of strange delights. It's pattern music, in a way, so there's a connection with the whole post-minimalist aesthetic I'm part of." I was pleased to discover that Vivaldi's music is very modular. "There are times I depart completely from the original, yes, but there are moments when it pokes through. You can hear this chemical reaction particularly well at the opening of Richter's reworked Summer concerto, which has become a weird collision of Arvo Pärt-likemelancholy in the solo violin and a minimalist workout for the rest of the strings. This involved "throwing molecules of the original Vivaldi into a test tube with a bunch of other things, and waiting for an explosion".
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