Chaya Czernowin's work, commissioned by SWR and the New York Philharmonic, has a strong link to her a cappella piece Immaterial, which was premiered by the Neue Vocalsolisten at the Eclat Festival in 2021 - a "sound theatre of pure voices", according to the composer.
After composing the piece which had a big importance for her, she had to counter her feeling of being caught up in it with something more open, and so she transposed fragments of Immaterial into an "orchestral jungle, a jungle, a huge wilderness that grows unstoppably and uncontrollably", as Chaya Czernowin says.
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