Instrumentation: violin and electronics
Duration: 15:00
Year composed: 2015

Project Information:
The music was created for a site-specific collaboration with Choreographer Miro Magloire and dancers of the New Chamber Ballet (Elizabeth Brown and Daniela Gianuzzi) at the Tempietto del Bramante in Rome, Italy. This project was supported by the Fellows Fund at the American Academy in Rome.

World Premiere:
The work was premiered, with dance, on March 3, 2016 at the Tempietto Del Bramante, San Pietro in Montoria, Real Academia de España en Roma presented by the American Academy in Rome as part of Cinque Mostre - Across the Board: Parts of a Whole curated by Ilaria Gianni.

Program Note:
In classical antiquity temenos is a type of sanctuary, a sacred space carved out as a place of worship, often delineated by markers defining the space. Bramante's Tempietto, a circular sanctuary is now situated, not as originally planned, in a set of concentric colonnades, but in a rectangular courtyard, changing our relationship to the space. The music and the dance turns in cycles and patterns, reflecting on the space, the architecture, the repetitive nature of ritual, and the centuries of time past and future.