This is the first piece ever written for marimba and theorbo. The marimba is one of the oldest melodic instruments and the theorbo is a historical instrument trapped in time. With this in mind, I decided to write a piece that deals directly with time – musical time, historical time, timelessness.

In particular, I wanted to explore the idea that time might not be linear or even cyclical, but trapped, static – like a lake. The urban dictionary refers to “lake time” as “the absence of knowledge ...