Form, writes Nicolas Bourriaud, is ‘structural unity imitating a world.’ I have responded to this idea with Three Spaces in Mid-Air, which is designed as a continuous work in three discrete sections. Each explores the idea of spectral space through interaction and coalescence of stratified sound — I conceived these as formations of three-dimensional sonic objects suspended before the listener as plausibly coherent ‘worlds.’ The work’s three sections also address the compression of form, each aiming to embody the atmosphere of a self-contained micro-narrative — evoking implications of direction, tension and release while balancing states of stasis and motion.

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Three Spaces in Mid-Air was realized in 2017 in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Laboratory at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK), and premiered on June 21, 2017, at the Project(ion) Room in Brussels (Belgium). Three Spaces in Mid-Air was awarded the 2nd prize in the 10th Destellos Electroacoustic Composition Competition (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2017), and 1st Prize at the 6th Klang! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition (Montpellier, France, 2019).

Premiere

• June 21, 2017, Concert John Young: Looking Back — Looking Forward, Project(ion) Room, Brussels (Belgium)

Awards

• 2nd prize, Fixed medium, 10th Destellos Competition 2017, Mar del Plata (Argentina)
• 1st prize, Klang! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition 2019, Montpellier (Hérault, France)