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'Critical Planet' for String Quartet.

0:00 I. So Many Clocks and Not Enough Time
3:31 II. A Breath
5:30 III. Flicker, Flicker, Ash

Composer: Lisa Cheney www.lisacheney.com.au
Performers: Flinders String Quartet. Elizabeth Sellars (violin), Zöe Black (violin), Helen Ireland (viola), Zoe Knighton (cello). https://www.flindersquartet.com

Commissioned by the Flinders String Quartet for the Emerge Composer Program. This premiere performance was given by Flinders String Quartet, on 21 February 2024 at Noisy Ritual in Melbourne, Australia.

PROGRAM NOTES
"What role can a composer play in the fight for climate change? This is a question I ask myself daily. I believe that as artists we have a responsibility to bear witness to our current times.

Critical Planet for string quartet is comprised of three short movements titled:

1. So Many Clocks and Not Enough Time
2. A Breath
3. Flicker, Flicker, Ash

It is my hope to continue adding movements to this work in the future, making it a larger collection of works commenting on our warming and threatened planet.
The first movement, elegy-like, interprets the title by playing with a sense of time and pulse through irregular quintuplet figures that stop and start. There are very few soloistic movements, requiring the ensemble to work together, pushing forward as one organism to feel the fluid, dance-like phrases before reaching a climatic wave of energy and ending on a beautiful, sombre solo viola line.
The second movement offers a moment of relief. A metaphorical considered pause and gesture of hope. The underlying anxiety and sense of urgency remain, but from within there is optimism coloured with a heaviness. After all, this is overwhelming. Breathe in, breathe out. Gather yourself for what comes.
In the third movement, the inevitable heat has arrived, and sparks ignite. A feeling of unease and tension is the undercurrent of a gradual smouldering, melting and warping world. As the movement progresses the ensemble are encouraged to improvise movements between notes, making them unpredictable from one performance to the next."