lightness & weight, brings together an international ensemble of musicians where each member shares their unique cultural signature full of various styles, practices and experiences. This interdisciplinary work is in dialogue with different artistic practices and incorporates literature, music, theory, new technologies and light. It is based on Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In this project I engage with the author’s structural and philosophical explorations. At the beginning of each chapter, Kundera proposes a philosophical provocation, and each character has its own ‘existential code’ through which they respond to that provocation. Likewise, elements of my composition provide a philosophical and conceptual provocations, and each participant responds based on their own life experiences, embedded knowledges and interpretations. In this work, I hope to provide new ways of looking at the functions and meanings of symbols and signs, and explore more expansive relationships between notated music and the ‘oral’ practice of free improvisation. This leads me to further challenge the notions of the ‘single author’. Naturally as a collaborative multidisciplinary work shared authorship is central to the entire process. It is a non-hierarchical partnership between its various artistic disciplines.