“yourlungs, myheart, our survival” (YLMHOS), is a critical investigation into the act of musical performance as a visceral, biological expression. The work will attempt to communicate how our body’s physiology, sensory and emotional perception are manifested through the act of performing with an instrument and the reverse, potentially destructive effect this has on the body.

The aim of YLMHOS is to explore the junction between music and the body's biological functions. How they influence the music as well as how they are influenced by it.

Through this exploration, YLMHOS will highlight how enduring a musical performance and playing an instrument is a reminder of both the body’s inherent resilience as well as its vulnerabilities.

YLMHOS will distort and make visible the tension between the body’s instinctual responses to music performance. Increased heart rate, shortness of breath, and muscle tightness are all struggles of survival that the body faces when put under stress. Like athletes, musicians need to train to achieve their full potential (or not?). Like athletes, musicians fail too. The only way to remove the probability of this failure is repetition and to build endurance. YLMHOS is concerned with this phenomenon and the full physiological spectrum that endurance, repetition and pressure operate within, subsequently, the failure or success that this effort results in.