Programme Note

Senescence & Rumination (2022) was written at a time where I was constantly meeting new people, but frustratingly struggling to make any meaningful or long term connections. It felt as though there would be a great flurry of activity and excitement followed by a decay, some rapid, others drawn out. The piece presents the concepts of Senescence (decay) and Rumination (obsession), as two competing and duelling ideas expressed through a number of musical parameters in ways that mirror the feelings I had during this period