Brooding and textural composition for tempered chamber ensemble and sinewaves. 

At various points indicated in the synchronised score, indicated performers retune their instruments up or down a 1/4 tone, adding to the sense of the unfamiliar. Like instruments in fog. In this regard, "SHADOW PLAY" is a companion piece to my earlier composition 'QUINTET' [2008], which is set not in shadow, but light.

Microtonal melodic material is present in the 'shadows' but moves almost imperceivable towards an eventual sonorous crescendo wherein all the instruments converge upon the same retuned tonality alteration and the shadows lift, or do they go darker still? 

Duration - 7' 19"