Through its temporal uncertainty, Jack Sheenās new BBC Commission explores uncanny glitches in our use of digital technology. Your expectation of how things may unfold is gently confounded by the notion of ālagā, in both obvious and imperceptible ways. The starting point of Carola Bauckholtās āIn the Eye of the Soundā was the first bar of Mussorgsky's With the Dead in a Dead Language. A central aspect of her work is a fascination with the phenomenon of perception and understanding of music, noting that ājust as complex connections can be built up from words in a story, this is also possible in music.ā
More than two decades after his work Zimzum, Nigerian-born composer Charles Uzor revisits two existential questions: Why are we here? How did everything come to exist? His BBC commission explores the vigorous duality of good and evil, and chaos and clarity. Unrestricted, energetic, explosive ā Mirela IviÄeviÄ is one of the most enthralling composers of her generation and works with ensembles including Klangforum Wien and Ensemble Nikel. Tense and anarchic, IviÄeviÄ's compositions resemble rebellious acts.
