LINEAGE STUDIES
Explorations that have not yet become instruments. Some may never do so.
These works are not models. Yet.
They are meditations — carried in silence, sometimes for decades, until the music itself allows an answer to appear.
Actus Tragicus — BWV 106
An opening that seems to ask: “Could I become a violin?
A young Bach’s early masterpiece, concealing extraordinary gift.
This exploration asks whether an instrument can carry the same intelligence and emotion — and offer the musician the same calm, steady reassurance, century after century.
Lacrimae Pavan
Flow, my tears
Flow my tears, fall from your springs,
Exil’d for ever let me mourn.
Where night’s black bird her sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorn.
Lamma Bada Yatathanna
Fourteenth century — present tense
A living melody shaped by a timeless love poem possibly by Ibn al-Khatib (1313-1374) — in 8/10 meter, carrying the devastating depth of maqam Nahawand.
This project explores whether an instrument can embrace this truth, inspire the same fire in a musician, and what that might return to our shared humanity.
Sheet music images are sourced from IMSLP and used under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 License.