This is a piece of music I wrote called “Avis”.

The word “avis” is the Latin word for "bird," forming the root of terms like avian and the name Avis, and it is also a French word derived from the Latin visum (meaning "vision" or "view") that became "advice" or "opinion" through Old and Middle French. In Roman culture, birds were seen as messengers of the gods and symbols of good fortune. This path led to the English word “advice”, in the late 13th century, the French avis (opinion) was adopted into English. The word originally meant "opinion" and later "counsel".

This piece wasn’t meant for a film or other media, but it’s an important one for me personally. It was at a time when I was beginning to connect with music in a way I previously could not. So I set out to write something, but I needed a subject. I love the stars, and I thought about humanity’s fascination with them.

Clearly, not in the same way that Holst wrote about them so brilliantly through mythological namesakes, but the part of humanity that from it’s earliest days looked up at night, and imagined impossible things. That part of us all that never stopped looking up, always dreaming of impossible things yet to come. Through insatiable curiosity, making new discoveries through the ages, and cracking the oldest of primordial codes. Until we could actually reach up and touch those very stars. tirelessly asking new questions, forging new collaboirations in a global scientific community.

What new questions follow tomorrow’s andwers?

What dreams might we touch in the days after?