Brush (in open air) (in resin)

for amplified string quartet

20 minutes (2025)


Composed for Quatuor Bozzini

World Premiere

Gaudeamus Festival: Quatuor Bozzini – Composer’s Kitchen
September 14, 2025 | TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht NL

Quatuor Bozzini

Program Notes

The two-movement piece "Brush (in open air) (in resin)" is inspired by accumulated sound memories—from nature, from bodies, from song—that arrive, dissolve, and are continually filtered. Sounds are stretched into longer moments, moving between intimate textures and hearing a larger soundscape evolve. These sounds blur between clarity and distance, suspended with transparency and presence.

Brush (in open air) (in resin) | Julia Mermelstein