Darf ich noch einen Satz? (Palimpsest for 8 speakers)

Darf ich noch einen Satz? (Palimpsest for 8 speakers) explores how sound can model processes of memory formation and transformation. Layered oscillations and brief sound textures repeat with phase shifts, gradually overlapping and partially canceling each other out, much like the traces in an overwritten manuscript. The work is inspired by memory research on reconsolidation—in which recalling an event alters its stored form—and its cultural studies counterpart, reconstructivity. The piece is composed of multiple layers of sound that continuously overlap anew, attempting to cancel each other out in the process. In this process, however, the layers are never completely erased, so that fragments of the preceding states always remain.