For 10 musicians and electronics

Written for Ensemble BIT20 and conductor Molly Turner. Commosioned by The Bergen International Festival (Festspillene i Bergen).

The piece takes as its point of departure Bach’s chorale Befiehl du deine Wege. The chorale collapses and crumbles within the ensemble: notes are erased and replaced by silence or noise, smeared into clouds of sound, fragmented and distilled until only simple melodic lines or repeated chords remain. The song lingers as a fragile background: the musicians hum softly, while recordings of the composer’s own voice and the ensemble’s first rehearsal are projected through homemade loudspeakers.