IGOR IACHIMCIUC: The idea of the actual project came to me in the summer of 2010. I don’t know why, but particularly during summertime I am able to find some free space within the rather dense circle of ideas that surrounds me. Usually I am working off of one or more premises, which influence (either directly or indirectly) the formation of a particular idea. My musical roots go deep into Romanian folk music, but I also have considerable experience in jazz and academic music. For more than eight years, I have been away from my native country, the Republic of Moldova. As a result, I interact with musicians very different from the ones with whom I collaborated some time ago. I often wonder what I can do in the West with such a typical Eastern European instrument as the cimbalom. How would Chick Corea or Pat Metheny play it? Another series of thoughts has to do with the functional limitation of traditional instruments. In typical folk orchestra...