croí an aeir
2019 · for soprano saxophone and electronics · performed by José Manuel Bañuls
Croí an aeir (trans. ‘the air’s core’) is written in the style of an Irish slow air. The saxophonist plays the air again and again with improvised ornamentation and phrasing, and the layered recordings gather into a choir of saxophones set in a field of glitches. The piece began as a duo project with José Manuel Bañuls exploring ‘imagined folk’ music.
In 2020 the recording was set to the scene in which Cooper meets Naido in the Mauve Room, from Twin Peaks: The Return, as part of a series of reimagined soundtracks.