LACUNA

solo organ // arr. string quartet

2024

duration: 5'

Based on the opening bars of the Ave Maris Stella, this work for solo organ contemplates the material in a sunken, meditative state. Inspired by drone and ambient music, I invite the performer to linger on every chord and every change, feeling the dense harmony filling the space around them.

The word Lacuna means “a blank space” which might be odd given that this dense music may feel like the opposite, but I want this music to fill the space it is performed as well as the people listening, becoming almost a background to their thoughts and feelings, replacing the silence that existed before the music begun playing, to then becoming the silence.