Francesco Filidei, Ash Fure, Justė Janulytė, Gérard Grisey, György Ligeti, Klangforum Wien

Volumina sets forth chords of great density, through which Ligeti modulates the nuances and registers of the organ. Unveiling the possibilities of the instrument, but also its imperfections, its rigour and solemnity, his aim is to create “an architecture composed solely of scaffolding, with no edifice”. In Partiels, a piece which is emblematic of the work of Gérard Grisey’s, and indeed that of the spectral movement, sound is born, dies, like all living cells, and generates its own space via shadow and light.
    Drawing on minimalism, spectres and drones, Justė Janulytė’s Clessidra ("hourglass" in English) blends two simultaneous processes, the image of the empty and the full, of the grain of sand which flows and that which accumulates in order to measure time. A Library on Lightning takes its inspiration from scars left on the skin by lightning. Ash Fure’s visceral and immersive work, with its physical effect on the body, mobilises our capacity to feel an electrical force of such concentration, and the wound it leaves behind. In Ballata, the organist Francesco Filidei layers the twelve notes of the chromatic scale across interlinking sections, thereby bringing to fruition, from the basis of an archetype, the most audacious of edifices.