Pencilled Wings by Emma O’Halloran combines sparse writing for the flute and piano with a slowly pulsating electronics track, suggesting the vastness of our universe.
In 2019 we performed “Pencilled Wings” in Multiverse Concert Series’ “Shadows of Exoplanets,” which featured lectures about the latest research on exoplanets in outer space by Dr. Roy Gould of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Although the title of the piece refers to butterflies that migrate enormous distances, we love the connection between butterflies migrating and humans exploring outer space.