Two Still Lives in Free Fall is a composition (two pieces) for flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

 and cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

 by Juan Maria Solare

Juan María Solare

Juan María Solare is an Argentine composer and pianist.-Education:Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Solare studied and received his diploma in piano , composition and conducting at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo...

 (Composed in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, Germany, from 8 to 18th June 1998). Duration: 5:30. The piece is dedicated to Tasneem Hanfi and Caroline Stinson.

The piece makes use of extended techniques (for the flute), concretely frullato (flutter tongue), tongued pizzicato and "Pauken-Effekt" (tongue ram). The cello, besides the usual techniques (ranging from sul tasto to sul ponticello, flautato and col legno), uses "tap": "martellato mano sinistra" (martellato left hand: tapping the strings with the fingertips of the left hand.