This work explores the memories found in cupboards, drawers and cabinets. Scraps of paper, photographs and mementos come to life through sonic snapshots of earlier times. Opening and closing cupboards offers an inviting gesture to enter new sonic worlds; a cliché of the acousmatic genre, but reimagined here as an everyday action that frames the appearance of sound memories. This open-close action reveals environments, places and spaces, showing brief sonic glimpses of my past years. A key influence guiding the work’s construction was the concept of the interruption. Exploring interruptions in all their forms and how these impact upon continuity was an important step for developing the work’s structure.

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Cupboard Love was realized in 2022 at the composer’s studio in Manchester (England, UK) and premiered on March 12, 2023 during the CCMC 2023 festival in the Shokeikan Hall of the Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto (Japan). Cupboard Love was awarded the ACSM116 Prize of the CCMC 2023 competition (Japan), and a honorable mention at the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis (Leuk, Switzerland, 2024).

Composition

• 2022, Personal studio, Manchester (England, UK)

Premiere

• March 12, 2023, CCMC 2023: Concert 2 — Works Selected by CCMC, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts – K101 Shokeikan Hall, Kyoto (Japan)

Awards

• ACSM116 Prize, CCMC 2023, Japan
• Special Mention, Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2024, Leuk (Switzerland)