Transept in/break artist reflection: sea roar and sound break - a reflection on composition in a time of silence

[Editor’s Note: Composer and musicologist Jane Pettegree uses her fascinating contribution to our series on artists’ creative processes to introduce readers to a new way of thinking about and making music. She describes how an asynchronous collaborative composition can bring voices together ‘in the absence of real-time co-presence’, offering an alternative when musicians cannot share a physical space, then describes how the asynchronous composition she is creating for the In/break exhibition will weave improvised, home-recorded sounds into conventional music and ‘the vibrant pre-verbal sounds of the natural world’.]