Statement
My practice aims to expand the possibilities and understanding of composition through what I term the ‘physics of improvisation’: where improvisation is pursued as a study of interaction, technique, (dis)order, space and time.
At the center of my work is spontaneous composition – not exclusively as its output, but as the primary modality of exploring composition and sound. Approaching music through spontaneous composition means to be cognizant of preset frameworks to then disassociate them from sound, including elements that are typically considered the building blocks of music (melody, harmony, rhythm and timbre). It is by peering through the reliance on them as preconceived devices that a performer can create the conditions allowing for genuinely original contribution. The work is not that which creates the sound, it is the sound itself.
- April 2024