Lost Man Loop was composed during my last year at The Juilliard School, where I was completing a degree in clarinet performance. At approximately 10 minutes in length, this one-movement quartet contrasts passages of tutta forza post-minimalist shredding with more lyrical and bittersweet utterances, which pulse with a more tender yearning. The form is a relatively simple A-B-A’-B’, which hopefully gives a sense of structural grounding and clarity to the otherwise jumbled surface features of the material, which often pits “molto-espressivo” melodic lines against multiple levels of competing and interrupted poly-rhythms. A past composition teacher once referred to the work as sounding like “Copland on crack”, which I took to be a compliment at the time.