End of summer, light between your eyes (2022)

Instrumentation: piccolo/alto flute, Bb clarinet/bass clarinet, soprano/baritone saxophone, percussion, accordion, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass (5-string)

Written for and premiered by Schallfeld Ensemble as a part of Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik 2022, commissioned by the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Duration: 13’

Program note:

'“End of summer, light between your eyes” deals with memory: not as something which flows easily and envelops you like a dream, but as a series of sensations, zoomed in, never able to regain the momentum or consistency of experience.

Only the essence of the feeling, the strange details that remain after years, more present than the significant moments which always seem to disappear and reappear without reason, without a thread to hold them together.

It deals with memory as distraction, as the inability to stay present in a moment, as a kind of zig-zag through realities both present and obscure; as something which binds together and something which is irredeemably isolating, which constantly presses on the ability to share anything at all.