"Nympholepsy" is a visceral, immersive sound-theater experiment that reimagines the Greek myth of Apollo and Daphne through a surreal post-humanist lens. “Ephemera”, has been commissioned by National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY); set to premiere in their 2027 season.

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The myth of Apollo and Daphne tells how the god Apollo, struck by Eros’ arrow of love, pursues the nymph Daphne, who, to escape him, transforms into a laurel tree.

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The piece is performed by a harp(ist), an actor, and live electronics, relying heavily on noise music, and electronic sound augmentation. The harpist, Dafne Paris,  embodies Daphne, while Apollo—played by Jax Neal—initiates an act of desecration, destruction, and violation. As the piece unfolds, sound, bodies, voices, and the space itself succumb to an inevitable process of collapse and decay. The music too, collapses out of formal musical structures into noise.

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​Daphne's story is retold as one of dehumanization, the loss of language, form, and embodiment. Music as an organized biological system also breaks down through these decompositional aesthetics. The deterioration of form as liberation.