Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Jennifer Langridge, cello

Mark Thomas - Director of Photography
Rob Kelledy - Sound recording and Mastering
Tim Williams - Editor and Producer

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The piece starts with repetitive gestures with delicate harmonics, as if frozen in time. The stasis is then disrupted by a low dyad and as if a spell is broken the music bursts into song. This intensifies and gets higher and higher, then almost dissolves back into the stasis.

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