Music for the Japanese choreographer and performer Akira Kasai.
From the composer website:
"The music for Exusiaiwas created in a 6 week period, the first 4 weeks of which while Carl Stone was in living at the Djerassi Artist-In-Residence Program, in Woodside California. Thematically, Exusiai is a dance about the special kind of life-force that exists in the inorganic matter of the mineral. An example of this life force would be a crystal, which in a way grows inside of a rock-crystal or tourmaline. As a mineral life-force, it contrasts in opposition to the biological life-force such as in plants. An object that is "dead" organically can in fact be alive from the viewpoint of Exusiai."