My Wind Quintet was composed in 1995 and is dedicated to the Susira Wind Quintet, who gave its first performance at the 1996 Brighton Festival. It was revised in December 2020. The starting point in its composition was my reading of an essay by the Polish philosopher Leszek Ko?okowski entitled ?In Praise of Inconsistency?. I wanted to write a piece where completely disparate elements existed side by side, rather than one where a concept of ?organic? unity relates everything to everything else. The problem is that inconsistency itself becomes consistent if systematically applied ? so I tried to make the piece inconsistent, even in its inconsistency!