(slowly / excerpts) is a spatial music piece and installation for cello, electric guitar, a stereo pair of conventional loudspeakers and one industrial horn speaker. The performers are distributed across the room, playing together to a tape consisting of processed field recordings, sound synthesis and instrumental textures stretched beyond recognition. Unable to see each other, the performers rely on listening and a timer for synchronization. Meanwhile, a single horn speaker plays back recordings of a voice singing, granular crackling and stitched fragments of a conversation.

The compositional structure combines conventionally notated pieces with guided improvisational passages. The latter, utilizing mostly extended playing techniques, feature in sparse, abstract sections that function as negative space between the more precisely composed fragments, which take a more conventional approach to the instruments. The spatial separation of the performers shapes how they listen, interact and coordinate with one another.

The piece explores the intersection of concert performance and exhibition logic, sculpturally placing the performers throughout the room rather than in a stage-like configuration. Together with the loudspeakers, they create an environment that unfolds differently depending on the audience's position. The audience is free to move around the space, experiencing the piece from different proximities and perspectives.

In between performances, the piece shifts into its installation state: a 20-minute loop consisting of excerpts from the composition, while objects such as cello resin and a guitar amplifier remain as sculptural traces of the performance.