Isabel Mundry says about her new work: "For a few years now, I’ve been fascinated by musical forms that arise where music is not written down but passed on orally. These are forms of picking up, transforming, and passing on, carried by patterns or melodies. They are found in oral cultures and are, in principle, infinite. This composition plays with similar processes. I design lines or rhythmic patterns, let them return, and listen to what they want from me elsewhere. Sometimes they condense or overlap and become polyphonies. At other times, they fray and dissipate into emptiness. It is a mode of writing that oscillates between activity and passivity. Essentially, it could also be collaboratively extended. This is a vision of mine: to write music in which creation and listening merge, where every expression is also an imprint, and every progression is also a trace. It is the vision of creating a social space that exists solely in the medium of sound. All parts of the piece are circular in structure. They return to where they have already been, emerging from within, but transformed in the process. As a result, they never come to a close. They never conclude but instead open up anew—towards what is to come."
Trio Abstrakt is planning further performances of the work after the premiere; for dates, see trioabstrakt.com.
