Magnetic Resonance is a piece inspired by the myriad sounds produced by an MRI machine. The lilting 6/8 ostinato, first heard in the viola, is the idling sound of the machine, constant and unwavering. It is often seemingly interrupted by various whirs and beeps, drowned out by guttural growls and scratches, but it always emerges unfazed. A number of extended techniques are utilised, such as circular bowing, air tones, scratch tones, knocking the body of the instruments and bow overpressure.