Duration: 9 minutes | Composed: 2025 | Commissioned by Ensemble Q | World Premiere: March 17th 2025, QPAC

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PURCHASE

Let me take you to the heart of a place.
I’ve never been there before.
But I can feel the warm sand, sifting through my fingers, draining away in puffs and fits back into the dune, as I hold my hand out in the blustering wind.
The air feels hot and dry, and an earthy, fragrant scent fills my head.
I don’t understand what the scent is, but I’ll know it when I see it.
The glare overwhelms my eyes, though the warm sun soaking into my skin leads me to forget. I can feel the heat an inch deep into my skin. It sinks into my bones.
All the air around me is a warm, radiant embrace.

I - Duno (Dune)
II - Curia (a building)
III - Koro (heart)
IV - Rezisto (resistance)
V - Denove (again)

This work is inspired by both the Big Drift sand dunes in Victoria and the Baelo Claudia Archaeological Complex and sand dunes in Bolonia, Spain.