David Mitchell Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. January 12, 1969
Birthday: January 12
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.
source: David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.445, Random House
topic: Keys, Order, Color, Clarinet, Overlapping, Oboes, Fortnight
