sussurra—meaning to whisper in Italian—is a collaboration with composer Eliza Brown. Starting with a commission from Classical Music Indy's Micro Composition Project in 2023, sussurra is a ca. 5-minute piece of music for clarinet, percussion, violin, and cello written by Brown in response to my small sculpture of a found leaf, foglia. In the video adaptation, foglia and wooden art forms are "activated" by breath and music