Tapis, pour cordes (2 violins, viola, cello and double bass), Set of parts

The title Tapis - meaning carpet, fabric - refers to the fabric-like structure of sound surfaces which confirm Yun's view of the note as a 'brushstroke', as a string of sounds. Tapis, which can be performed by both solo instrument and string orchestra, is woven of small and minuscule intervallic cells. On the other hand, the arrangement of such cells into chains leads to broad melodic developments in an almost symphonically dense air. The virtuoso work shows an almost symmetrical tripartite form with the tempo characteristics fast - slow - fast. Yun divides the five-part setting into the sound groups of the low and high strings, with the viola taking a mediating position and entering into changing alliances with the violins or the basses. The sequence of the first nine bars anticipates the overall form - at least the fast outer sections - on a small scale: Small intervals are dominating