Eat Your Damn Vegetables
Chamber Ensemble
This piece reflects on the challenge of pushing yourself to do things that are difficult but ultimately necessary. It plays with musical extremes — high and low, dense and sparse, loud and quiet — to highlight the contrast between inner struggle and outward appearance. As the tension builds, the music eventually unravels into exhaustion, collapsing under its own weight before coming to rest.
2021 • Original work
Instrumentation
Flute, Clarinet in B♭ (+Bass Clarinet), Violin, Cello, Percussion
Duration
9’00
Credits
Composed for Ensemble Offspring's 2021 Hatched Summer School and premiered on 17 December 2021 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.