accretion/erosion was written in response to a documentar y broadcast on BBC Radio 4, about the effects of natural forces on the coastline near Formby in Lancashire. It consists of six short sections which - as the work's title suggests - are subjected to alternate processes of attenuation and prolongation.

Thanks are due to Heather Roche for help with the multiphonics and underblown multiphonics employed in the piece.