Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Into My Heart an Air That Kills is a piece which examines ideas surrounding intimacy, voyeurism, and the body exposed within a musical performance. Inspired in part by contact improvisation and dance practices, the piece encourages performers to reflect on their own physicality, their relationship with each other and their instruments.
Within the work, the instruments, performer's bodies and sounds of the breath are highly amplified, revealing sonic details that typically go unheard by the audience. Projecting these sounds throughout the space, I hope to create an immersive environment — one in which the audience feels both connected to and surrounded by the bodies performing before them. My piece also features a ‘hacked’ cello, which responds and amplifies the movements of the player using contact microphones and a transducer speaker fitted to the instrument, establishing a tactile feedback loop between the performer and instrument.
Throughout the piece, I hope to interrogate the boundaries of spectatorship by posing a set of questions to the audience: Are we witnessing something sacred? Or something we were never meant to see? Are we safe in our seats, at a distance, or complicit in an unfolding intimacy between the players?
Note by Rachael Gibson
Michelle Hromin clarinet
Colin Alexander cello
Jacob Brown percussion
Filmed at the Soundhub Showcase on Friday 16 May 2025 at The Nave, St John’s Waterloo.
#LondonSymphonyOrchestra #ContemporaryMusic #Composer
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Into My Heart an Air That Kills is a piece which examines ideas surrounding intimacy, voyeurism, and the body exposed within a musical performance. Inspired in part by contact improvisation and dance practices, the piece encourages performers to reflect on their own physicality, their relationship with each other and their instruments.
Within the work, the instruments, performer's bodies and sounds of the breath are highly amplified, revealing sonic details that typically go unheard by the audience. Projecting these sounds throughout the space, I hope to create an immersive environment — one in which the audience feels both connected to and surrounded by the bodies performing before them. My piece also features a ‘hacked’ cello, which responds and amplifies the movements of the player using contact microphones and a transducer speaker fitted to the instrument, establishing a tactile feedback loop between the performer and instrument.
Throughout the piece, I hope to interrogate the boundaries of spectatorship by posing a set of questions to the audience: Are we witnessing something sacred? Or something we were never meant to see? Are we safe in our seats, at a distance, or complicit in an unfolding intimacy between the players?
Note by Rachael Gibson
Michelle Hromin clarinet
Colin Alexander cello
Jacob Brown percussion
Filmed at the Soundhub Showcase on Friday 16 May 2025 at The Nave, St John’s Waterloo.
#LondonSymphonyOrchestra #ContemporaryMusic #Composer
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Website: lso.co.uk
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Spotify: spoti.fi/291cCk0
LSO Live: lsolive.lso.co.uk
