Program notes

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This piece speaks to the paradoxical idea of molding existence into non-existence.

Perhaps it seeks a dialogue between what is tangible and what is not—and imagined like so.
It delves into a sense of interconnected temporalities and imagines what could travel across planes.
There is also the perception of heaviness and the charged icons of one's personal narrative.
This work talks about types of presences, reimagined objects, and whatever impalpable things accompany them. Intentional creation and impermanence.

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"He throws a stone today and kills a bird yesterday" (Ulli Beier, 1970). I have always interpreted the Yoruba aforism on Eshu as a reflection on consequences that defy our conventional understanding of time, in connections that appear impossible between cause and effect.
To me, one challenge of creating lies in incorporating a possible future into a version of the past, although neither can exist.

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In this piece, some sounds were simply laid flat. Others were revived or borrowed from elsewhere. What connects them (or not) is what I'm currently identifying as my own.