2023     'Unboxing a Music Box' 
               String quartet n. 2

In Unboxing a Music Box, I found myself very attracted by the ‘imaginary’ of music boxes— their sonorities, melodies and mechanisms. In particular, I have the sounding memory of a rusty music box that my grandmother used to have in her room, one that I would wind up every time I could.

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I put all of these sounding and memory elements into a mind-blender, and what came out was a piece in which each separated component is gradually integrated into a rhythmically and gesturally odd mechanism, which wants to be playful at times but breaks loose in the end, finding a charming lost tune.