This is the opening from a "moving painting" collaboration between Nathan Currier and artist Suzan Woodruff. Woodruff was filmed while working on her painting Visitation. Currier then created a film sequence and "choreographed" a key part of his Gaian Variations with it.
From a recording on the Chandos label, this is the first movement of a trio for flute, viola and harp.
This is the fourth movement of the sonata, in which a minuet and a dirge sound together throughout the movement, in a complex emotional and textural counterpoint.
The sonata, subtitled A Sonata for Mozart's Secret Society, after Mozart's plan to start a society called the Grotto, suggests the Enlightenment roots of our current understanding, and misunderstanding, of Nature.
Marie-Pierre Langlamet and Matias de Oliviera Pinto perform in this excerpt. The full piece can be heard at Currier's composer site, linked below. The work can be heard as an expression of Chimeras and Consciousness (left), which explores the emergence of the collective sensory system of life, the real story of the evolution of consciousness.