Built live, layer by layer
Each performance is made live in the room. A piece begins with a single instrument, sparse and repeating. More are added as it plays, each looping at its own length, so they slip in and out of step. It builds into something warm, then settles back to near silence.
The sound comes from all four corners, so it moves around the room rather than facing you from a stage. There is no beat and no fixed volume. It rises and falls, closer to sparse contemporary classical than to a band, and it rewards attention without demanding it. People sit, lie back, read, or carry on with whatever the space is for.
Most often this takes the form of a ninety-minute concert, the audience seated or lying around a small central stage. At a larger scale, the same sound is carried through a whole building, and its rooms, corridors and stairwells become part of the performance.
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