apparently bridge is some sort of game that is played by grandmothers. i never knew my grandparents, so i cannot verify if this is true or not. the bridges i know are human-made constructions used for connection - often crossing over some sort of dangerous area like a river, ravine, cliff, or many other bridges knotted over one another. there is also the formal term bridge in the many types of popular music, where such crossing over generally leads not into a different area but directly to the same one again. these would make for unsuccessful bridges in real life. these formal images of bridging were the starting point for this piece in the first place, in which i had the feeling of crossing over into a different (aesthetic) territory. out of this impression arose the temporal structure of the work, where, through process and repetition, the piece's trajectory leads continually into difference as well as similarity and memory. these tensions exist also on the surface level, where connections and contradictions are made between the instruments in the sound itself through differences in temperament/tuning, timbre, and rhythm.