Orchestral / Large Ensemble
Echoes in the Void
Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic with support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund, 2024.
Program Notes
Echoes in the Void began as a meditation on negative space - the rests between notes, the silences between phrases - and grew into something far larger than its origins. The work unfolds in three continuous sections, each exploring a different relationship between presence and absence.
The opening moves through a series of slow, sustained string chords that seem to dissolve at the edges, punctuated by isolated woodwind gestures that ask questions without answers. The central section erupts into a dense, rhythmically complex orchestral texture before collapsing inward. The finale returns to stillness, but a stillness forever altered by what came before.
Performance History