My friend Jonathan Stuchbery introduced me to the instrument in more detail during our 2018 tour of *Lost Islands* with the Cygnus Trio. I learned that the unusual configuration of the instrument doesn’t stop at the surface – the re-entrant tuning allows beautiful resonance on close intervals on the top for strings. I began writing this piece on a small island in the St. Lawrence, with Jonathan’s theorbo in hand. I became fascinated by the physicality of the instrument – finding different ways to interact and coax sound from the strings. *Mosquito Touch*’s title might have come from the many bugs we encountered on our Ontario tour, and might have come from my relationship with my own instrument; one that felt rather parasitic at the time. Mosquito Touch was premiered as a recording over live stream in September 2020, with a music video by Alex McLeod.