this line comes from the past

there is all of the ac­tiv­ity that oc­curs from the feel­ing of your body bi­sected, your eyes bi­sected, the time in which you were sit­ting, there is the fact that space has changed, that his­tory has been opened (this line comes from the past).

— Renee Glad­man, Calami­ties

this line comes from the past was com­mis­sioned by im­puls . In­ter­na­tional En­sem­ble and Com­posers Acad­emy for Con­tem­po­rary Music, Graz, Aus­tria, and was pre­miered at im­puls 2019 by Klang­fo­rum Wien.

A short state­ment I wrote for the Klang­fo­rum sea­son cat­a­logue can be found on their web­site [archived ver­sion].