Cumulus began as a response to a Chinese ink painting — an attempt to translate into sound the quality of brushwork that moves freely across space, lands where it chooses, and finds meaning in the encounter rather than the plan. The music explores space and freedom: notes that fly, settle briefly against another timbre or colour, hold for a moment, and move again. Like ink on paper, nothing is forced into place.

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The score was selected by the Atlanta Contemporary Ensemble, who brought their own choreographic and visual collaborators to the work independently. What emerged is a different kind of collaboration — one where each artist contributed their full creative autonomy rather than a shared compromise. The result is a chemistry that only arises when no one is trying to control the whole.