for Marie, Elsa, Ryan and Eudes
A first version of j-sho was composed in 2011 during an all-nighter in Orly airport while waiting for a flight to Crete. It was subsequently refined for all sorts of configurations including the Helsinki Chamber Choir before it landed in its current form –- that is, for the ensemble 101. We used a real vacuum cleaner until French social security stopped paying for reconstructive facial surgery from self-inflicted wounds.