The “Expanding…” Series
This series is an evolving body of ambient-influenced works that explore the interplay between acoustic instruments, electronics, and spatial perception. Each piece is reflecting a core interest in the gradual unfolding and diffusion of sound—not only in time, but across space, timbre, and texture. The works blur the boundary between performer and environment, using amplification, movement, and extended techniques to create immersive sonic environments.
Each composition in the series combines acoustic instruments with electronics—ranging from live processing and delay to reverb, spatial diffusion, and synthesis. A defining feature of the series is the way acoustic sound is transformed and extended via technology: reverberant tails replace direct attacks, clusters are smeared across space, and performer motion becomes part of the compositional fabric.
Expanding Field
Expanding Field explores the spatial, electronic and acoustic expansion of sound in real time. Using a circular array of six loudspeakers, the wind instrument performers walk around the audience, each equipped with wireless microphones. As they play, their sounds are captured, processed, and diffused outward into the room with delay and reverb, creating a fluid and immersive sound field. While the vibraphone gives another timbre to the music, the synth and cello create long ambient pads, to melt everything together.
Expanding Field is a meditation on how sound can move, dissolve, and take up space—an invitation to listen beyond the source, into the field it leaves behind.
Expanding Nature
Expanding Nature is a meditation on growth as listening, not just progress. It creates an environment where human actions and natural sounds interact.
The title means both a physical process and a mindset. To “expand nature” is to uncover hidden sounds and let them grow through amplification, delay, and human focus. Musicians are like gardeners, shaping the space for sound to grow and change.
The piece starts with tiny sounds and grows into bright tones, then fades back to being clear. It follows a cycle like nature, with things appearing, living together, and spreading out.
Each sound is made bigger and longer with reverb and delay, making it seem like the instruments are playing with the room. The echoes become memories, and the audience becomes part of the music.
At its heart, Expanding Nature asks: what if music was a living place instead of just events? Each musician helps create an acoustic world, where tone and texture are more important than melody and rhythm.
Expanding Nature II
Expanding Nature II is a meditation on the lifecycle of sound, highlighting transformation, growth, and interconnection. It creates a space where performers are free to respond to one another, shaping an evolving sonic environment.
Rather than relying solely on technical instructions, the piece encourages a mindset of deep listening, sensing, and intuitive interaction—an invitation to embody natural processes and allow sound to unfold organically.
Expanding Glass
Expanding Glass, explores fragility, transparency, and resonance. Using high-register textures, metallic percussion, and shimmering electronics, it evokes the properties of glass—its capacity to reflect, refract, and break. Delay, filtering, and spectral processing are used to stretch sonic material into crystalline layers.