The Art of Sinking

for piano, ROLI Seaboard and video (2025)

You are playing to an imaginary crowd in a huge, imaginary stadium. It’s your big day: everyone is excited, but you feel sleepy and not really up to it. You keep hearing a little voice in your head telling you to do things. Everything feels slightly glossy like a dream. You have the feeling that you’ve forgotten to do something urgent. You keep playing. The crowd loves you.

Commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists, with the support of a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London. Premiered at Sound Festival Scotland on 31 October 2025 in Aberdeen.