This work is an arrangement/recomposition of the oldest known written music, inscribed on clay tablets from the ancient city of Ugarit in northwest Syria. Given the ‘score’ is almost 3500 years old and written in cuneiform, the musical interpretation is rather conjectural: various ‘translations’ into modern notation have been attempted, with quite different results. This work uses Marcelle Duchesne-Guillemin’s version, partly because it is the most well-known, and partly because it contains intriguing ‘shaking’ figures that feature in the piece. The strings play almost entirely in harmonics, and the texture is formed from a ‘prolation canon’, in which the same melody appears in all parts, but out-of-sync and at different speeds. This, as well as the spatialized position of the quartet, gently ‘sets in motion’ the resonance of the space.