There is nowhere else but ‘here’

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String Quartet
Commissioned by the Odin String Quartet for their lockdown lullabies project.
3 min

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Program Note:
“There is nowhere else but ‘here’” makes use of sustained tones, gentle melodic flourishes, homophonic textures, and contrasts of range and timbre to evocatively bring forth a calming musical lullaby. The music ebbs and flows, like a soft flame from a dwindling campfire. Phrases gently blossom, melodies intermingle with diatonic distances agains the hushed sustained sonorities. The work is inspired by the image of looking to what exists, the ordinary, the unremarkable and finding inspiration and meaning there. During the global crisis of COVID-19 our worlds were withheld, restricted and shattered; we looked to our immediate surroundings for everything. This piece is a mediation on the idea of ‘here’.

Video performance: https://youtu.be/J0El9O9Sz-U?t=674