Having spent the last 10 years working primarily with multimedia, found material and theatrical formats, I wanted to focus on some of the sounds and musical ideas that often ended up in the background in service of broader concepts or theatrical elements.

The idea of found material or ready-mades remains the starting point in grosso, but in terms of the musical and physical properties of specific instruments and objects, such as their pitch selection, layout, mechanics, timbre, and resonance.

At the centre – almost as a fifth performer – stands a Leslie speaker, the legendary double-rotary speaker system associated with the Hammond organ. Not just its signature pulsation and Doppler effect, but also the mechanical sounds of its inner workings are examined and followed as musical motifs.

Written for Yarn/Wire, commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage, Festival Manifeste/IRCAM and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.

Having spent the last 10 years working primarily with multimedia, found material and theatrical formats, I wanted to focus on some of the sounds and musical ideas that often ended up in the background in service of broader concepts or theatrical elements.

The idea of found material or ready-mades remains the starting point in grosso, but in terms of the musical and physical properties of specific instruments and objects, such as their pitch selection, layout, mechanics, timbre, and resonance.

At the centre – almost as a fifth performer – stands a Leslie speaker, the legendary double-rotary speaker system associated with the Hammond organ. Not just its signature pulsation and Doppler effect, but also the mechanical sounds of its inner workings are examined and followed as musical motifs.

Written for Yarn/Wire, commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage, Festival Manifeste/IRCAM and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.