the graceful fall to the earth
Ensemble Nordlys ask me to come to Denmark in the summer of 2016. They will perform several of my works over the two week festival, including a new work I will create for them. I consult my journal.
New music is brewing: Memory Wild Fruit (Wild Strawberries)
Remembering that day, now many years ago, when we picked strawberries in Sweden – the hot sun, the long row, and the dark, staining juice on my hands? Sweet and sticky.
A sliding between who I was and who I am. The pull of the earth, of time, of memory, and the pushing against it – trying to free myself but also loving the graceful fall to the earth. Ever earthwards. Gravity. The delicious rise and pull.
There is an untamed and wild quality to memory. Like gravity, it has its own pull – forward and back, upwards and downwards. The music in Memory (Wild Fruit) slides, relaxing, but at the same time, resisting.
