Dalle de Verre

Instrumentation: four channel speakers

Duration: 6:50

Dalle de Verre (from the French “glass slab”) takes its inspiration from the glassmaking practice of the same name. In this, shards of thick colored glass are arranged in various manners and set in epoxy resin. The resultant stained glass creates deeper colors as light passes through their windowpanes.

Similarly, I use thick fragments of sound – some shimmering in a way akin to light passing through a rose window, others fragmentations of broken up words that describe glasswork in various ways, and still more that are much harder to define but still relate to my efforts to portray sonic glass slabs – that I arrange in a manner to create refractions of sound that links back to the way a glassmaker’s work may refract light.