Ann Cleare

[5] Her 2011–2012 work, on magnetic fields, was commissioned by the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik and premiered by the Collegium Novum Zürich.

This work, which separates the performers into three chamber ensembles, uses two violin soloists as a kind of sculpted "electric current" to propel the interaction between the musicians.

In an interview with Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Cleare described the work:At the centre of two of the spatially divided chamber groups lies a solo violin.

In an interview, Cleare said,In a geological sense, the word "eolian" signifies something borne, deposited, produced or eroded by the wind.

And in a mythical sense, the title alludes to Eöl, an elf from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth writings, who skillfully wove metals into various magical armors.