On the very day I left home to attend the Royal Academy of Music in London in September 1987, the great American composer Morton Feldman died in New York. Since that day I wanted to write a tribute to him and his work, and it came out in the form of a piece for string quartet, written in 1999 whilst I was stranded for 6 months in the UK. This piece uses many techniques that I came to develop later, such as microtones, poly- and irrational rhythms, and aleatoric sections, to name but three. The first part takes two musical fragments, by Beethoven and Rossini, pulls them apart, grinds them down, shifts the layers, and creates something new out of them. Part two reframes some music I wrote for a stage play, with some more aggressive music melting into gently wafting, non-directional music - which returns in part four. The third part is a ferocious scherzo that deconstructs a fragment from Philip Glass' Einstein on The Beach and turns it into a twitching Parkinson's wreck. Well deserved!