On Thursday 25th April at 6pm, a new work of mine will be premiered by the Explore Ensemble at the Royal College of Music. An ‘earbending, mind-expanding’ ensemble (The Observer), it comprises six ridiculously good musicians, who will play devenir-enfance: a non-linear piece that resists traditional ideas of development and growth. Instead, the listener may feel as though they are being schizophrenically flung into contact with numerous diverse objects or timelines, which dart back and forth between one another without sharing much of a relationship. While writing the piece, I was preoccupied with several conceptions of childhood: the Frankfurt School on childhood-as-utopia; and Deleuze’s becoming-childhood, which gives the piece its title. The structure of the piece is largely informed by the Farey sequence, a mathematical sequence that deals with strings of reduced fractions.

Tickets and further details can be found HERE.