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CRINKLE CUDDLE CRUMPLE CRUNCH for solo cello and hand-built tinfoil speaker cave sculpture written by Lucy McKnight and performed by Nick Photinos October 10, 2023 at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University

“presence of your absence” is a swirling wordless grief gremlin. It’s a singing through the heaviness, a holding of all sorts of absences that weigh thick upon me. The loss of my father, my cat, my partner’s father, one of my first composition mentors. The difficulty of tending to a romantic partnership aching with distance-both geographical and emotional. It’s a stumbling, reaching for groundi...

Afterlight is the remaining glow in the sky after the sun dips below the horizon. “aching afterlight” is an exploration of lingering resonances, distorted reflections, and disruptions. Written for Yarn/Wire (performing with vibraphone, 4 toy pianos, 2 grand pianos, 2 midi keyboards, 2 hand-built gong stands with 4 hanging pots, 2 kick drums, 2 cymbals, 4 voices) Premiered at Princeton Universit...

In this piece, warp & weft, I collaborated with my dear friend, Andrea Camacho, an incredible singer/composer/fashion designer (go check out her beautiful work: columpiostudio.com), to create a piece in which we explore singing while embracing each other. How would it feel to produce sound when connected through movement and touch, and how would this touch, one chest vibrating against another v...

when i am among the trees composed by Lucy McKnight and performed by Parker Ramsay on harp and Lucy's custom-built harp-organ pipe-percussion instrument in Taplin Auditorium at Princeton University November 29, 2022. This piece is titled after Mary Oliver’s poem of the same name: When I am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equ...