Eat Your Damn Vegetables

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.

Composed for Ensemble Offspring's 2021 Hatched Summer School and premiered on 17 December 2021 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.