An understanding of the title of this piece is crucial as it informs the whole concept of the work.

Dissociative Fugue (formerly called psychogenic fugue) is a psychological state in which a person loses awareness of their identity, other important autobiographical information and also engages in some form of unexpected travel. Dissociative fugue is a subtype of dissociative amnesia, but is more commonly found in people who experience dissociative identity disorder. Dissociation is generally thought of as a defence against trauma that helps people disconnect from extreme psychological distress. The themes of autobiography and loss of identity are central to the piece. What is the identity of a viola or a piano and what would it sound like to lose that identity? The piece is constructed so that the music moves towards a situation of such stress, that the identity of each instrument breaks and they become completely disparate from one another. It goes against the grain of what sounds we expect to hear from each instrument. The last moments are a collection of fragments which have no correlation to each other, they simply hang in the air, disconnected to any sense of where they have come from.