Commissioned by London Music Masters for Many Voices, a collection of new violin and piano works for young people, in the charity’s 10th Anniversary year
I sought the pitches from Sonatas by Scarlatti, which I then put through a process of augmentation via signals, which act like holes placed upon Scarlatti’s music, rather like loopholes that allowed space for my own interventions.
Dark Ground inhabits an imaginary space where a ritual takes place. I see the space as a circle, and within that circle, cyclic patterns and formations are enacted, each leaving a mark on the space.