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Train of thought

Manuella Blackburn

Train of thought

  • Manuella Blackburn
  • Année de composition: 2025
  • Durée: 8:54
  • Instrumentation: support stéréo
  • Commande: DEGEM
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Thoughts broken into disjointed fragments. Distractions, changes of plan and multitasking chaos break the continuity of my ideas. This work is about capturing something in its complete form; a train going by, a walk outside, a musical idea and then breaking it harshly so it does not finish or follow its intended course. Incomplete trajectories and sounds, unexpectedly cut short, form a metaphor for my thinking as I become diverted in everyday life. Focused, uninterrupted thinking and creative time seem like a distant memory. Crafting interruptions shape pauses, stoppages and collisions with silence to mark out and celebrate the cutouts of sound.

[viii-25]


The piece was commissioned by the DEGEM through the Thomas-Seelig-Fixed-Media-Preis 2025.

Création

  • 11 octobre 2025, Spatial Audio Currents: Jahres-Mitgliederkonzert der DEGEM, Konzertsaal — Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Brême (Allemagne)

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