Robert Dick and Ursel Schlicht have devoted themselves to stretching the sonorities and textures listeners expect from their instruments, and to sculpting fresh musical forms in which elements of formal composition and improvisation are blended. Theirs is music that looks forward and pushes toward a future in which limitations are swept away (who says you can’t bend pitches or play glissandos on the flute and piano? Watch us!), but in which the art’s purely human aspect – the exchanges and interplay that make music a conversation that goes beyond words – remain in the spotlight. – Allan Kozinn