Duet is an audio installation and two-channel film installation based upon a composition for solo viola, Lift Me Up For I Am Dying (commissioned by the Swiss Institute in Rome).

Duet was an audio installation in 14 fragments at the Rothko Chapel, 14-15 May 2013 to mark the 65th anniversary of the formation of the Israeli State and Palestinian Nakba. The 14 variations of Duet echoed the 14 canvases which form the composition of the Rothko Chapel.

Duet transposes Lift Me Up For I Am Dying - a composition based upon the last spoken words of John Keats (1795-1821) - into the context of loss and mounring in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Duet, features performances by Avri Levitan (Tel Aviv) and Tyme Khleifi (Ramallah) recorded in the Clearchens Ballhaus Berlin (July 2011). Duet was presented as an audio installation at the Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX on 14-15 May 2013 to mark the 65th anniversary of the formation of the Israeli State and the Palestinian Nakba. In the audio installation the presence of two speakers marked the absent human form of the musicians: the left hand speaker featured Tyme Khleifi (Ramallah) the right hand speaker Avri Levitan (Tel Aviv). The audio installation at the Rothko Chapel was followed by a film screening and panel discussion at Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH) 16 May 2013, featuring Alexander Regier (Associate Professor, Rice University) and panel discussion with Dean Daderko (Curator, CAMH) and Bill Arning (Director, CAMH).

Duet was the title work of a solo exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, 17 May-30 July 2013, curated by Giuseppe Albano.

Duet was a two-channel film installation at ASU Art Museum, Arizona (8-24 Nov 2012) and was the basis of an invited artist talk at Catastrophes: The 2012 International Conference on Romanticism, Arizona State University (8-11 Nov 2012) http://english.clas.asu.edu/icr2012.

Lift Me Up For I Am Dying - which features a recital, score and also split-screen video and series of hand casts commissioned by Kunsthalle Basel - was first performed in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome on 9 May 2010 as part of Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession, a group exhibition at Swiss Institute in Rome (9 May - 25 September 2010) and Kunsthalle Basel (13 June- 22 August 2010).

Lift Me Up For I Am Dying and the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome was the basis of a £10,000 Creative Scotland Award (2011) to develop Sonata - a three channel installation based upon a score on the work of Keats, Shelley and Corso (all buried in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome). Sonata is in development for a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, January 2014.

This direction of work has led to the development of Mural, a composition based upon the writings of the Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish and to be developed in 2013/14 in association with the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, Palestine supported by Glasgow City Council Lord Provost and International Office (£3000).

The installation at the Rothko Chapel led to a proposal to Literature and the Musical Imagination commissions series of Houston-based musical collective, DaCamera, for Octet, a new composition for the Rothko Chapel based upon the 8 stanzas of Keats Ode to a Nightingale.