Tell me everything was commissioned by La Camarata of Mexico City and premiered at Festival Cervantino. The piece was inspired by a cassette tape that a friend had given me. The tape was of a South American band that had recently acquired brass instruments and were roughly playing together. It was a messy sound, cacophonous – everyone playing together and not together. It was joyful and unwieldy. There were so many times while writing this piece that I broke into laughter — wondering can I really write this, can it really go on like this?
