For recorder and electronics, composed for, and with, László Rózsa.

‘Experiment… By striking a flint… against a steel, to make certain shining… and fiery sparks… to fly out’

Observations of fiery sparks channels Robert Hooke’s fevered, approach to late night experimenting. The work explores his results of using a flint and a steel to make hundreds of tiny sparks that he observed with his microscope. There was huge variety what found. Some were ‘heat hot red’, others ‘cracked’, or ‘hollow’, some perfectly ’round’, or ‘broken in pieces’.

This piece is a kind of fever dream, oversize sonic representations of Hooke’s findings are propelled around the audience having been struck into existence by László.

An early draft of this piece was once described by my wonderful colleague Martin Parker as ‘multi-channel madness’. For the uninitiated in spatial sound techniques Martin was perhaps referring to the discombobulating nature of the sounds as they move around and surround the audience.