body split and hand remained untouched with the exception of itself
for piano + chimes
body split and hand remained untouched with the exception of itself was composed during a residency period at VIsby International Centre for Composers (Visby, SE) in 2018 and was premiered at Opera North on 29 January, 2019. Taking as its inspiration the bounding and leaping patterns of infrasoundโs interaction with different atmospheric layers, body splitโฆ utilizes different levels of activity at different time-scalings. As the 25โ piano part twitches precariously between high and low frequency ranges, it bends in and out of the โrhythmic markersโ set by the chimes due to โductingโ and โzones of silence,โ two concepts taken from the behavior of infrasound in the atmosphere causing these vibrations toโin a senseโdisappear. The piece consists of five sections, mirroring the five main atmospheric layers (including the Exosphere), yet the inclusion of CAConradโs poetic framing hints at further relationships between the self and the scales of climate ex/change.