…stretched across its axes [2024]

viola [45’]

Written for Marco Fusi. Composition commission from Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart.

performance history

3/26-28/2025 - Marco Fusi. Recording Session Residency. EMPAC. Troy, NY.

2/8/2025 - Marco Fusi. Eclat Festival. Stuttgart, Germany.

program note

…stretched across its axes is interested in the tethers within a body, & the hemispheres across a body. It plots itself along the network of interconnected tendons, sinews, and ligaments that bind and convulse and constrict each other’s action. The viola is the body: press here to exact tension there; tighten there to sharpen vibration here. Touch the body, it responds. Listen to its song: a hidden, withdrawn counterpoint of tactility and sensation.