The World is The Active String, is a contemporary work for SATB choir which was premiered by The Carice Singers conducted by George Parris, and commissioned by The Royal Philharmonic Society for premier at Cheltenham Music Festival in 2023.

This piece explores the complex resonances produced when physically and aesthetically separate materials overlap in unexpected ways. In this work, sound moves amongst spatialised singers onstage, and between onstage and offstage groups. At the same time, a repeating two-chord refrain overlaps with a series of solos and duets exploring tiny, microtimbral inflections in sound. The assemblage of these materials creates an environment which evokes the primordial, gesturing to a soundworld that originates in the earth and which echoes continuously through time. This piece encourages listeners to consider human participants as sympathetic strings that allow us to momentarily tune in to the ongoing resonances of the world around us.