The Centipede Dances was composed for ensemble oktopus and Konstantia Gourzi, commissioned by the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation in Munich.

Scored for tenor saxophone, horn in F, harp, piano, violin, viola, violoncello, and double bass, the piece is short, playful, and intricately virtuosic. Built in a variation–palindrome structure, it employs idioms of contemporary music yet achieves a distinctive sense of timelessness through the continual transformation of recurring measures. None...