'Sleep Now, Baby Beast' for String quartet
Duration of 10 minutes - Commissioned by Gaudeamus Festival​​

I was drawn to the idea of rendering something rough or harsh in a tender or subtle way. The piece works with contrasting gestures that fail to separate completely.

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The music unfolds within the tension between tenderness and rawness, as the title suggests. The “baby beast” is both vulnerable and unruly: something that can be shaped, but not entirely controlled.

The result is a sound world that is at once intimate and resistant—a space where softness and friction coexist, and where imitation becomes a form of transformation rather than reproduction.