Destructive Interference (2021) for solo flute

This piece is a portrait of a meeting point between the self that you know, and the selves that went and made different decisions, did other things.

The title takes its name after the phenomenon created when two audio waves superimpose and cancel each other out leading to a lower amplitude. Naming it this implies a nihilism on this process of reflection but the intended sentiment of the work is ambivalence through a process of reckoning.

Recorded at the Melbourne Recital Centre in December 2021, this work was made possible by RISE Funding, the Australian National Academy of Music and flautist Lily Bryant, with producer Duncan Yardley and engineer Russell Thomson.

This work was first performed by Lily Bryant at the Abbotsford Convent in December 2021.

Duration 9'