the memory machine for piano and interactive / generative electronics (2024)

The impossibility of forgetting. The impossibility of repeating. The difference between memory and dream. The function of memory as one, principally, of body, then, of mind. The living of memories unattended to – they are bubbling beneath the surface of experience; they are often the experience itself. The possibility of a vertical listening. The purification of space through sound. The possibility of seeing without memory, of seeing with clarity. The fact that nothing is ‘like’ anything else. That everything is exactly itself. That there is so much we long to not remember, and so much we long to not forget.

the memory machine was commissioned by Lorcan Baxter with the generous support of the George and Marjorie Chandler Fund.