Move You Move

for guitar and percussion, 2019
premiered by The Living Earth Show

Program Note:
Two people, in the world, with or without each other.

This piece explores mutuality, what music therapist Katrien Foubert defines as “the emergence of a polyphonic flow founded on the forces that constantly make us balance between independence and dependence, nearness and distance” (Foubert 2020).*

*Katrien Foubert, Birgit Sebreghts, Julie Sutton, Jos De Backer, “Musical encounters on the borderline. Patterns of mutuality in musical improvisations with Borderline Personality Disorder,” in The Arts in Psychotherapy 67 (2020).