dropLET_GO (2021)

for alto flute, viola and violoncello

Ensemble Risonanze Erranti
Anne-Catherine Heinzmann (alto flute)
Barbara Linke-Holicka (viola)
Peter Tilling (cello)

Premiere performance:

Festival Risonanze Erranti
Ensemble Risonanze Erranti
Protestantische Kirche Haardt
September 24th, 2021, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany

Other performances:

KO-LAB: catinblack ensemble & ensemble S201
Dimitry Stavrianidi (alto flute)
Sofia von Atzingen (viola)
Ema Grčman (cello)
SZENE 10 – BÜHNE IM GIRARDET
Friday, November 14, 2025, Essen, Germany

Photo credits: Ronan Whittern, @ronanwhit

Commissioned by Peter Tilling and the Festival Risonanze Erranti with the generous support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, dropLET_GO was premiered at the Festival Risonanze Erranti on September 24th, 2021, at the Protestantische Kirche Haardt in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany. The piece unfolds as a gradual convergence, beginning with highly granular, repetitive textures and mechanically interwoven gestures that create a dense counterpoint of micro-interactions among the instruments. These complex, layered synergies form a restless, mechanical surface that propels the structure forward. As the work progresses, this energetic fragmentation slowly dissolves into continuous timbral threads—sonic filaments that stretch and evolve across time. Through this transition from complexity to cohesion, dropLET_GO explores the poetics of motion and stasis, of fragmentation giving way to resonance. It is a study in transformation, where sound moves from resistance to release.

Live recording: Festival Risonanze Erranti, Protestantische Kirche Haardt, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse – Germany, September 24th, 2021