Co-commissioned a concerto for electric violin for the Scottish BBC and Seattle Symphony, (2020).

 

Gravity blocks the Moon, forcing one side of it to face Earth. Selenites inhabiting the lunar equator would see the globe fixed at the zenith, slowly changing its phases as the synodic cycle progresses. The terrestrial phases are complementary to the lunar ones; if the planet wanes the satellite grows; if one is full the other is absent. When the terrestrial shadow is projected on the Moon, the lunarians witness a solar eclipse, while the terrestrials perceive a lunar one.

 

At the moment of totality, the sun's rays pass through the Earth's atmosphere enveloping the Moon in a somber reddish glow, which Selenites perceive as a fiery ring encompassing the darkened planet. This annular twilight is the sum of every sunrise and sunset on the blue horizon, where earthlings in the twilight witness, rising at dawn or setting at dusk, the Moon eclipsed by the fervent shadow of the Earth.

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First movement

Second movement

Third movement

Fourth movement