Spherical Bastard
Matchstick Piehouse July 2022
Composer: Mahsa Salali
Performed by Zanān Collective
The idea of the piece comes from the philosophy of Sufism culture and the dances of Whirling Dervishes. In Sufism, it is a common practice that in their everyday life they treat everything as an endless eternity, an infinity within life, a beyond without a start nor an end. The piece tries to capture the infinity of sound that has been started before ‘it plays’ or before ‘it is heard', the sound that has already begun and we are only capturing a moment of it, it is continuous and endless, does not have a start nor an end. The musical material of the piece is very minimal and changes over a very gradual process, allowing the sound and the shape of the sphere to sink in; The piece includes only 4 notes B C D E, where each note is introduced one by one and slowly added by the following note...
Roxanna Albayati: Cello, Carolina Cury: Voice, Nefeli Erma Maliali: Voice, Emma Gerrett: Clarinet, Evie Hilyer-Ziegler: Viola, Gosia Kepa: Percussion, Alex Lyon: Bass Clarinet, Siobhan Mccafferty: Violin, Hannah Shilvock: Bass Clarinet, Congling Wu: Violin, Egle Saka: Visuals
Performed by Zanān Collective
The idea of the piece comes from the philosophy of Sufism culture and the dances of Whirling Dervishes. In Sufism, it is a common practice that in their everyday life they treat everything as an endless eternity, an infinity within life, a beyond without a start nor an end. The piece tries to capture the infinity of sound that has been started before ‘it plays’ or before ‘it is heard', the sound that has already begun and we are only capturing a moment of it, it is continuous and endless, does not have a start nor an end. The musical material of the piece is very minimal and changes over a very gradual process, allowing the sound and the shape of the sphere to sink in; The piece includes only 4 notes B C D E, where each note is introduced one by one and slowly added by the following note...
Roxanna Albayati: Cello, Carolina Cury: Voice, Nefeli Erma Maliali: Voice, Emma Gerrett: Clarinet, Evie Hilyer-Ziegler: Viola, Gosia Kepa: Percussion, Alex Lyon: Bass Clarinet, Siobhan Mccafferty: Violin, Hannah Shilvock: Bass Clarinet, Congling Wu: Violin, Egle Saka: Visuals