The Antifonys for strings options pretty thick, atonal writing, but what stunned me was how he was in a position to create extraordinarily rich string blends inside this style. Whether using one string section at a time, two or extra, or all of them without delay, the players transfer forward en masse and never with the leaner textures one typically hears these days in such pieces. And though the meter is consistently shifting, Walker retains the piece shifting forward, even in the temporary sluggish sections right here and there. By forty,000 years in the past, humans were creating musical devices…