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Commissioned by Quiet Music
Ensemble with funds made available by the Arts Council of Ireland, this
is a major new work from one of the world’s most influential
composers and performers, an independent and pioneering spirit who has
been at the cutting edge of musical and technical innovation for many
decades. Quiet Music Ensemble is Ireland’s leading Experimental
music group, which has been breaking radical new ground since 2008, and
recently performed to a sell-out crowd at the prestigious Huddersfield
Festival of Contemporary Music.
 The Mystery Beyond Matter is for improvising musicians and sound engineer, live electronics, multi channel audio and unusual venues including radio and internet. In this piece, acoustics are the central theme, not a secondary effect: using real resonant spaces and/or virtual ones generated by a computer program especially written by Nickil Deshpande, the piece opens up acoustic environments for the musicians and the audience to explore. A delicate drone floats endlessly in a rich, complex resonance while fleeting solos of diverse colours come and go, as if flickering figures coalesce out of a nebulous sea of sonorities. “Endless until it stops”, this is a piece that suspends time, balancing notes, textures and shades of resonance as if they were parts of a mobile in continuous and gentle motion. The Mystery Beyond Matter is radical, beautiful and immersive: a meditation on sound and the mystery beyond... Kunstradio presents the recording of the premiere on 27th April 2014 as an “Ars Acustica Listening Proposal”.
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