"Home" was composed in early 2007 for bassist Eleonore Oppenheim. I had just moved to a new apartment after over a year of chaos following a serious family illness. This piece is a brief and intense meditation on what it felt like to be home at last.

I wrote the following program note for "Home" in February of 2007:

For the past 15 months I have been living out of a suitcase. My life has been completely chaotic and unpredictable. I’ve had to learn to find home inside my own body, even when this body has been on the verge of falling apart. I’ve had to figure out how to stay in one piece as the world spins out of control around me. When I ask myself what home sounds like, it emerges as a set of two chords wailing through a beat-up amp…an endless noisy echo…a plaintive drone, part-crying, part-screaming in joy.

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am. I am. I am.”
-Sylvia Plath