Fragments 1

<p><em>Fragmentation as the process or state of breaking or being broken into fragments </em><a title="" href="https://lateraladdition.org/cp/collections/entries/sounds/pulsar-head-rhythm-sieve#_ednref" name="_edn1"></a>[1]</p> <p><em>as the disintegration or breaking apart of a cohesive narrative, structure, or form, often conveying a sense of dislocation, chaos and discontinuity </em>[2]</p> <p><em>a socially anchored process of deliberate breakage and reuse </em>[3]</p> <p><em>as feeling</em></p> <p>I moved to New York City in August 2024 for a year-long research fellowship. The last few months have been intense, characterised by numerous personal changes and emotional ups and downs. Time has felt incredibly slow and expansive one moment, rapid and overwhelming the next. Both over-excited and overwhelmed, I found myself needing to find a way musically to explore these intensities of feeling, and to understand how my internal experiences connect to broader ideas about change.</p> <p><em>Fragments 1</em> is part of a larger project of four (work in progress) pieces exploring different states of change: stasis, fragmentation, emergence, and equilibrium. These concepts appealed to me because of their relevance in both musical and non-musical contexts—ranging from the psychoanalytic and literary to the technical, scientific, and metaphorical—as a framework for understanding the relationships between time, change and feeling…</p>