“It's been a terrifying experience, but also very rewarding in that I can create my own sound and have my own voice in the music while also having a very constructive dialogue between myself, the composers, and the other performers involved.”

“It's been a terrifying experience, but also very rewarding in that I can create my own sound and have my own voice in the music while also having a very constructive dialogue between myself, the composers, and the other performers involved.”

I think this show is for everyone; anyone who’s interested in music, who’s interested in the way music affects and impacts the way that we go through our lives, the way that it affects are emotions and how we move about spaces and places. I think it’s also for someone who might be new to the electric guitar in a contemporary music setting. It’s not the most common of all the things to be included in chamber music. I think it’s for somebody who says “Oh that’s interesting. I love the guitar but I’ve never heard it in this context.

They'll hopefully get goosebumps, think about something in their memory, maybe imagine something in their future, be still and present, groove a little, maybe even dance, feel like they're hearing and supporting a human being and other human beings in a room of other human beings together after a weird couple years.

“That line of hers, “Nothing could be worse than a return to normality” is sort of a refrain - if not a literal refrain, then an emotional refrain throughout the piece. I think it's so important because following this sort of large-scale societal trauma it can be easy to want to just return to a sense of how it was before. We're still in the middle of it, of course, but as things start to feel a little more normal, it's important to not lose that fire that we found and this moment of reflection.”

“Well, it's kind of a rewriting of history. All popular music comes down from some very thorny experimental artists. You know you've got Radiohead way back in the day referencing Paul Lansky. I think that if like you said, if we see this stuff in film, if we see this stuff in a supporting role, it does it's water off our backs, but the second that we center on it it, we start to ask questions. So my whole mission as an artist is to challenge that. Why do we find these sounds “strange” when in reality we’re bombarded by them every single day?”