distant velvet, restless longing (2025)

Composed for and in collaboration with Dejana Sekulić.

World premiere: 26 June 2025, ZfGM Festival, Leipzig, Germany.

Dejana Sekulić (violin) · Eric Busch (electronics)

duration: ca. 8′

instrumentation: prepared violin, chimes (sounding object created by the composer) and electronics

Composed between Leipzig, Santiago de Chile, and Lisbon.

Performance notes
“deaf, stunned… submerged in the murky fog distant, boiling, pumping disturb the ordinary restlessness in a vortex of contraction and propagation enclosed in massive walls, the dense and cold silence lies of a remote peace, like memories, the thick echoes are felt once again everything stops and in an ambiguous sublimation seems to fade away”

This work was born out of an exchange. The violin material of the composition was conceived as a reaction to an initial improvisation by Dejana, while Dejana’s improvisation (and the material for the electronic part) reacts to the text written by the composer, which inspired the process. In this sense, the compositional process is a “chain” of emotional reactions, and the written score has no definite origin, blurred, like a distant memory. “distant velvet, restless longing” is a suspended tension between presence and distance, and between what is heard and what is remembered.

Electronics setup
The electronics are triggered live through a MIDI pedal. Each event will start only when it is triggered via the midi pedal. The violinist will use a small object called chimes (can be provided by the composer) that will interact with the violin strings. This sound result should (ideally) be amplified.

Laptop running a DAW (Reaper or Ableton Live preferred)
Audio interface with at least 4 outputs
2 stereo speaker pairs
1 condenser microphone
MIDI pedal for triggering clips

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