a swarm of silhouettes rose from an inverted dawn (2025)

World premiere: 27 September 2025, Schwaz, Austria
Klangspuren Schwaz Festival – Klangspuren Future Lab

Composed for and premiered by Studio Dan

duration: ca. 14′

instrumentation: flute (also piccolo), objects; trombone, objects; percussion + drum set, objects; piano, objects; violin, objects; double bass, objects; electronics

Lin Liao Conductor

Program note
A crystalline swarm rises and dissolves into a canvas corroded with lamentations. Memories, blurred, return obsessively, while violent ashes seek order in constellations. In the background, a dawn as dark as a black ocean emerges and transforms into something new that blends the funereal and the crystalline, whose relationship seems to coexist ambiguously, blurring together without resolution.
The electronic part acts as a shadow presence, sometimes amplifying the performers’ gestures, sometimes expanding the instrumental body of the entire ensemble. The electronics consist of pre-recorded sounds activated live by the pianist.