commissioned by Seattle Modern Orchestra

All instrumentalists approach their instruments with a percussive sensibility, engaging in a mode reminiscent of childlike exploration, reaching back to imagined ancestral encounters with sound.
In this approach, the stringed instruments are not bound to the bow, nor do wind instruments necessarily rely on breath. Performers are encouraged to perform on secondary (or beater) instruments.

In contrast, a select few members of the spatialized ensemble engage in choreographed movements that activate a thin, long metal sheet with transducers attached. Functioning as capacitive touch sensors, the metal sheets play back samples from Memory Moog synthesizer when touched by the performer. As the performer manipulates the sheets, the quasi- Medieval music is filtered and spatialized. This mode of engagement is a reaching forwards to imagined futures of engagements with sound.