May 24 - AION premiered by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Anna-Maria Helsing, accompanied by choreography by Erna Ómarsdóttir, with the Iceland Dance Company. See here for more information.

AION is a large orchestral work in three movements written equally as an independent concert work as well as to be performed with choreography. 

AION is inspired by the abstract metaphor of being able to move freely in time, of being able to explore time as a place/space that you inhabit rather than experiencing it as a one-directional journey through a single dimension. Disorienting at first, you realize that time extends in all directions simultaneously and that whenever you feel like it, you can access any moment, even simultaneously. As you learn to control the journey, you find that the experience becomes different by taking different perspectives - you can see every moment at once, focus on just some of them, or go there to experience them. You are constantly zooming in and out, both in dimension and perspective. Some moments you want to visit more than others, noticing as you revisit the same moment, how your perception of it changes.

As with my music generally, the inspiration behind AION is not something I am trying to describe through the music or the piece - to me, the qualities of the music are first and foremost musical.  When I am inspired by a particular element or quality, it is because I perceive it as musically interesting, and the qualities I tend to be inspired by are often structural, like proportion and flow, as well as relationships of balance between details within a larger structure, and how to move in perspective between the two — the details and the unity of the whole. AION moves between the micro and macro on every scale within the work – from the overall structure down to the most minute details in material.