It is always rewarding when a performance inspires a creative process which creates powerful waves in our community... About a year and a half ago I was performing with the Selkirk trio; Nicola Everton - clarinet, Sue Gould - Piano and myself (right to left) and we presented a rather new work by Russian composer Pavel Karminoff called "A Birthday Present To Myself." It is a rather minimalist work for clarinet, cello and piano bassed on a mathematically rhythmic motif centred