Music: Michele Deiana
 

performed by Decibel Ensemble on 18th February 2020
in The Lab (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire)

Violin: Emma Lloyd
Saxophone: Neil McGovern 
Recorder: Michelle Holloway
Clarinet: Maria Harron
Trombone: Martyn Sanderson
Electric Guitar: Chris Roberts
Double Bass: Ben Markland
Piano: Eliza McCarthy
Vibraphone and Bass Drum: Damien Harron
Conductor: Dan Rosina

Artistic Director: Ed Bennett

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Sonder meaning: "The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it."
Coined in 2012 by John Koenig, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words. Inspired by German sonder- (“special”) and French sonder (“to probe”).

Camera Operators: Tanna Chamberlain, Kat Wallace, and May Wai Wong
Video Editing and Post-Production: Michele Deiana