The title of the piece is pronounced "Todmorden five-thirteen"Markus Reuter interview on 'More Gilles' program, Colorado Public Radio, April 16, 2013 (text and content from audio broadcast) and juxtaposes the number of compositional elements used within the piece with the name of a small English market town in West Yorkshire, seventeen miles northeast of Manchester. Reuter was interested by the sinister Germanic implications of the Todmorden placename when he first encountered it (in German,"tod" means "death" and "morden" means "to murder") and used it to illustrate his own reflections on individual interpretation.
