“Regardless of the special order that an ensemble chooses, the four players share the common space.
In their own respective individual responsibility, they depend on each other.”

~Eva-Maria Houben, ‘Musical Practice as a Form of Life: How Making Music Can be Meaningful and Real’

Special thanks to Antoine Beuger (Düsseldorf), Paolo Griffin (Freesound collective, Toronto), Elisabet Dijkstra (New Art Music Ensemble, Durham), and my dear wife Maria-Eduarda Mendes Martins for their collaboration on early versions of this piece (winter 2022–summer 2023).