As a composer participant at the Irish Composition School in 2016, I worked closely with John McLachlan, Gráinne Mulvey and The Robinson Panoramic Quartet to create String Quartet No. 1. The work investigates how traditional performance techniques might be rethought and new sounds created through novel playing techniques — in this case, suspending the violin and viola as if they were pendulums and using their weight to create innovative sounds.
