Instrumentation: String Quartet
Duration: 12 minutes
Recorded by the Arditti Quartet as part of June in Buffalo 2022
About the work:
The existence of light filtered through a tree canopy onto the forest floor is a simple yet delicate and fleeting image. Key to this interaction is the existence of space, in betweens, and ambiguity as the light passes through the often moving tree canopy through the space below to create sometimes static, sometimes moving etchings on the earth. Etchings of Light is the outcome of a process of sonic experimentation and ecological interrogation of this process with fleeting, unstable sounds and physical and sonic space being explored and changed as the piece progresses.
Nathaniel Otley 