Airports are strange, biformative places. Designed singularly to facilitate travel, they also completely remove you from the experience of travelling. The people who pass through each have their own journeys, purposes and circumstances; they are corralled into a shared space that morphs to fit them, a shared experience, with a shared trajectory. This is nothing but a brief blip - they are transported, shifted onwards and sideways, the process repeats, and the momentary enclave disperses, leaving the airport changed but constant.

The orchestra is joined by a shifting backdrop of 5EDO chords, field recordings from Madrid-Barajas Airport and live processing to create a twin ambiance of perpetual motion and inertia, community and disparity, movement that goes nowhere.

Performed by the RNCM Brand New Orchestra & Emmy Lambert (electronics), April 2025.