At the Academy, I plan to compose my first large-scale work for orchestra through a holistic performance of undoing, of apophatic and cataphatic self-annihilation confronted by the beginning of this planet’s sixth mass extinction. Commissioned by Deutscher Musikrat’s Podium Gegenwart and written for the orchestra Eroica Berlin, this new work, titled parhelion, will contend with the ongoing, human-driven mass extinction and attempt to dismantle the framework in which human life is valued above all other ways of being. Driven by the autotheoretical importance of theory as practice, I will experiment with personal anthropodecentrism as an approach to composition and aim to understand the ethics of decreation. With its light, mysticism, grief, and acceptance, parhelion will premiere in Berlin at the end of 2025.