for soprano saxophone, accordion, percussion

Composed for the Music in the City workshop, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt and premiered by Marta Tiesenga (saxophone), Manca Dornik (accordion), Gian Marco Medda (percussion) @ Georg-Büchner-Platz, Darmstadt, Germany.

ear crumbs is a simmering soup of 378 postcard sized scores of notations, observations, actions and translations. Each score is an intimate invitation for music in the open air. Throughout the workshop, I created and iterated a subset of these score cards in (virtual) dialogue with the musicians to develop a performance in Georg-Büchner-Platz, Darmstadt. the situation consisted of two parts:

Part one: clearing the ear – the musicians are a sculptural listening organism …
Part two: playgrounds – the musicians get busy with scores !!!

The work is ‘site-considerate’ - I was grateful to experience the site (with thanks to Cathy Milliken, David Helbich and Marcus Weiss) via Zoom, Telegram, webcam, YouTube, maps, images and video call, etc so as to be able to create this work.