Composed during the first week of the UK’s lockdown response to COVID-19, shadows paralysed into my back is for open instrumentation and optional backing drone. The work seeks to constantly undermine itself, with any focus disintegrating the object of this attention.

Performances:

11/07/2020 — performed by Roxanna Albayati, as a part of Prelude to New Lights Festival, London.

16/07/2020 — performed by Reanimation Orchestra at Hosek Contemporary, Berlin.

16/03/2021 — University of York Piano Ensemble, YouTube.

Reanimation Orchestra. Rehearsal recording 19/06/20. JD Zazie (turntables, CDj), Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson (contrabass clarinet), Caroline Cecilia Tallone (prepared hurdy gurdy), Elo Masing (violin) and Jack Adler-McKean (tuba)