if i join up the dots in the stars

workshopped by Claire McCaldin and Libby Burgess as part of the Oxford Lieder New Music Workshop, The Schulamn Auditorium, Oxford 26 October 2018

if i join up the dots in the stars was written for the Oxford Lieder New Music Workshop. Based on a poem by local poet Lou Hough, the piece is based on transcriptions of sonifications of stars catalogued by astronomer Ulugh Beg and opens with a single note on the piano.