LAPSE
The word ‘lapse’ can refer to an interval or passage of time, as in a time-lapse, and also a temporary failure: a lapse of concentration, a memory lapse.
Playing on these two meanings, LAPSE is a piece in two movements about time passing - first fluid and seamless like liquid - then increasingly broken, stuttering and stalling, characterised by failure.
LAPSE was written for Sonix Duo (Johanna Leung and Curtis Man). The piece was premiered in St Ann’s Church, Manchester in December 2021.