Composition

 

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Year of composition: 2025

Instrumentation: piano four-hands

Duration: 7 mins

In times of upheaval, history repeats itself: a state collapses, a people are silenced, and a 'rebuild' begins. Yet reconstruction is rarely neutral; it can restore, but it also erases, forcing new systems onto those who have lost their voice.

 

In The Rebuild of a Fallen State, the piano becomes that contested ground: the primo embodies the silenced, carrying fragments of a dignified march that longs to be heard, while the secondo assumes the role of the dominant force, violently interrupting and reshaping the music. The full theme appears only once following the collapse of the oppressed, reduced to an echo — the ashes and ghosts of what could have been. A forced reconstruction follows. The oppressed voice is made to succumb, absorbed into a new order that carries the weight of control but not the spirit of what came before: when a fallen state is rebuilt, whose voice survives — and at what cost?