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Interstices was the first piece to be realised by the composer in the Electronic Music Studios at City University, London. The title refers to a review by Kathy Acker of the poems of Paul Buck:

'all day I've been thinking of interstices of the night, the grid where (in blackness) you can't perceive connections so everything is the holes of the grid, things just as they are, the holes.'

Utilising juxtapositions of speed, chaos, silence and space, Interstices is in three movements: two frenetic scherzi framing a slower, more expansive contemplative central movement.

First performed at the 1995 Spitalfields Festival in London, the piece was also played at the 2000 Bath International Festival in a concert of electroacoustic music featuring the Acousmonium - an 'orchestra' of around 100 loudspeakers controlled from a 64 channel mixing console designed by composer Francois Bayle - as a means of sound projection. Interstices was released on the Sonic Arts Network CD 'Sonic Postcards'.