Premiered in Los Angeles on March 3rd 2020, at In Sheep's Clothing,
by the Lyris Quartet:
Alyssa Park and Shalini Vijayan, violin
Luke Maurer, viola
Timothy Loo, violoncello
The title of the piece refers to a process of returning to a previous state through the recovery of one’s memories. This concept, often associated to psychotherapy, triggered to me the idea of travelling through life backwards but, having experienced closely what Alzheimer does to people, I asked myself how this trip would be if you could hardly retrieve any memories at all. A trip through a landscape of memories vanishing as time goes by.