A piece written for me
Penelope Axtens sent me Make the Decision as a PDF at eleven at night. Here is what it asks of the instrument, and what it took to learn.
From the road
Premieres, workshops and recordings, written in her own voice from the road.
Building a harp out of cardboard
Three days at Harpe en Avesnois with a box cutter and a soundboard. Why an instrument that costs almost nothing changes who gets to play.
Playing for people who cannot sit still
Forty minutes, no amplification, an audience aged nought to three. What I have learned about attention from the least polite listeners I have.
Why I left physics
For one year I tried to do both. The harp is a demanding instrument and it does not share.