In late 2016, I completed a duo for violin and cello commissioned by the Norwegian violinist Ole Bøhn. The work was premiered by Bøhn and cellist Christopher Gross (Talea Ensemble, New York) at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo the following February.

I continued to revise and refine the piece for many years, but I was never entirely satisfied with it. Eventually, I made the somewhat radical decision to discard roughly half of the material and reshape the remaining fragments into four short duos.

In this process, I was inspired by Italo Calvino's reflections on "lightness" in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, particularly the following passage:

"I would suggest this: my working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, [...] above all, I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."