in orbit

Saxophone (any size) (2017) | 7'

A piece mapped from a gravity slingshot from planet Earth, around the planets of our solar system, and into outer space.

Score

in Orbit (2017) - Eric Skytterholm Egan - TAKE 2 with STAVES - CURVES.jpg

...the systematisations attempted by Bode and Kepler of cubes of distances and squares of times of revolution: the almost infinite compressibility of hirsute comets and their vast elliptical egressive and reentrant orbits...

James Joyce | Ulysses

Stop*

the*world,*I* want*to*get

*off.*

Man in Orbit | D. O. Pitches

nobody can prove that there is not between Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice.

Bertrand Russell | Letter to John Major