Everyone No-one is concerned with technological, cultural, personal nostalgia and obsolescence, all taking place alongside the distant rumble of genocide. It is a ritual of knowing and unknowing, in many ways a meditation on death. Everyone No-one is dedicated to the memory of Mohammed Shaalan, a Palestinian basketball player who was murdered while trying to feed his family in Gaza in August 2025.

The harmonic relationships in this work are derived from disparate sources ranging from Johannes Kepler’s 17th century observations of Saturn to the “Mickey Mousing” techniques used by Carl Stalling in his Silly Symphonies of the 1930s. Saturn, with its melancholic, malefic and contemplative correspondences, sits over a journey exploring the historical remnants of the Crusades and later occupations in Jordan, the dissolving slop of late Western hegemony, and that unnameable gnawing - the dark unravelling, before and behind everything.

The title is taken from Joseph Weizenbaum’s code for Eliza, an early chatbot created in the 1960s. In Eliza’s model, “everyone” and “no-one” are interchangeable. Eliza was designed to function as a psychotherapist, mirroring the emotions and concerns of the user back to them. Eliza plays a simple and effective trick, optimising the user’s desire for connection and recognition. The user’s endless capacity for finding meaning in the meaningless does the heavy lifting.

Everyone No-one was commissioned by NO HAY BANDA and funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.