Duration: 60-minutes
irreversible histories of disturbance was influenced by this quote from the book The Mushroom at the End of the World by the anthropologist Anna Tsing:
“People and trees are caught in irreversible histories of disturbance. But some kinds of disturbance have been followed by regrowth of a sort that nurtures many lives.”
In much of my composition practice, I have tried to develop modes of interaction between performers that explore extra-musical processes drawn from interactions within built and natural environments. This long-form composition employs handmade instruments and scoring techniques that emphasize communal interdependence, performer agency, and playful curiosity about sound. The result of an extended collaboration, this work takes an ecosystemic approach to audible form and language that considers time-cycles, symbiosis, causation, erosion, disturbance, crisis, decay, and growth as catalysts for performer agency and musical world-building.