Air burnt dry
for reinforced violoncello
Australian summer changes everything – air is burnt dry by the sun, the earth is harsh and firm. Sounds sound different when water in the air has been burnt away by the heat. Everything is still when hiding from our summer sun.
“..and your voice shall whisper out of dust.”
On days like this, shade feels like a dampness. The air in shade has no weight when it’s this dry – it feels like moving through nothing, like an air as an absence of pressure.
In spring regrowth begins in the shade of these trees. After a fire, from the bark of a tree.
both to dust, and for dust –– sing from dust, and of honey
premiered by Pieter Matthynssens