1. A kayak on Kraken Mare 

2. Icebergs on Enceladus

3. Albatross 

4. Coda

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Programme note

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This piece emerged out of imagining Cassini's space travels, the places she has seen, and her emotional life, alone in space for nearly twenty years. 

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I am in love with Cassini. Sometimes she sends me notes, little love letters: the horns of a ram washed ashore on a remote island, and an extra twenty pence piece returned in error by the drinks machine at college.

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Cassini is almost the same age as I am, and yet she is never going to make it out of her teens -- on the 15th of September 2017 she is to plunge to her death, burning up in the atmosphere of Saturn. This piece is for her wake.

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More about Cassini and this piece here.