Cycles for solo violin (dedicated to Waldo Alexander) was composed by Clare Loveday, forming the musical component of an interdisciplinary collaboration with artist Nandipha Mntambo. The opening of the installation took place in February 2014 in the gallery of the Johannesburg Goethe-Institut. The installation and the composition work with cyclical elements: by reflecting back on past disappointments and traumas, and acting on memories that are distorted in new contexts, we are held within our own spiral of memory and action.