Composed in: 1989
Instrumentation: flute, trombone (requires improvising in jazz and free idioms by the trombonist)
Duration: 11 minutes
Premiere Performance: 10/20/89 at the XVII Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico
Ensemble: Hanne Muthspiel-Payer, flute and Christian Muthspiel, trombone
Recordings for broadcast: 1992 Morelia, Mexico
1991 Mexico City, Mexico
1991 ORF Landesstudio Tirol in Innsbruck, Austria

Tiroler Tageszeitung (Innsbruck, Austria)

" ... the most exciting experience was saved for the final piece. Axis 3 ... is driven by additional percussive musical effects, like stroking the trombone with a thimble and [electronically] amplified special tonguing effects of the flutist. From two instruments Wolfgang had derived four different sources of sound ... a phenomenal effect ... "