Program Notes

Approximately five hundred billion plastic cups are used each year, of which roughly six billion end up in landfills. grind attempts to symbolize the faulty business and political ideologies that ultimately contribute to a lack of environmental sustainability through the destructive morphology of a single sound source: a plastic Keurig coffee pod hitting the floor.

Premiere

November 18th, 2018 at Festival DME | Lisboa Incomum, Portugal

Awards

Finalist | Sound Silence Thought International Composition Competition (2020)