Music half remembered, or half forgotten. Songs absorbed through the womb. The waking remnants of a melody composed in dreaming. The air still moving infinitesimally to every sound that ever was. The echoes; the chord of resonance; the music of the spheres.

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"In 2009, I was commissioned by guitarist Matthew Marshall to write something for a tour he was planning of New Zealand. Matthew already had an impressive contemporary repertoire for the classical guitar, but had recently embraced the electric as well. Having acquired a Boss DD-20 looping pedal, he wanted something that would explore this very different sound world to best effect. Being rather critical of many so-called 'looping' pieces - the way the loops restrict form and development and often encourage a lazy kind of layering of sound - I resolved to rise to this challenge by researching deeply into their untapped potential. After many months of trial and error, pushing the loop pedal to its extremes, adding E-Bow (a hand-held electro-magnetic device for sustaining notes) and re-tuning the guitar microtonally, I found a music that I'd long felt in my bones but never before quite been able to express; an ambient music, one that dared only to hint at ideas; music that could perhaps go on forever."

The work was premiered in Tauranga, New Zealand, on 5th August 2009 and was subsequently toured around both North and South Island. In June 2011 a number of revisions and improvements were made and the new version performed by the composer himself as part of the Exeter Fringe Festival.