Over a period of 168 hours (7 days) the initial 40 minutes of Sense Absence cycles 252 times, during which the music randomly erodes by an increasing percentage (e.g. 10, 20, etc), until, after 126 cycles, the music is nearly all silence—it is but a wisp of sound—when the process is reversed and begins again .
No two repetitions are alike, the silences that create more spaces between tones alter our sense of time and connection to things more distant—our minds hold things and musical relationships become extended. The sounds travel with the acoustics of the Hans Otte Raum, a tone lingers in the middle of the space or scrapes along the walls, waiting for others.
While time is elastic in the music, it is fixed by the rotation of Paul Tzanetopoulos's periodic rotation of colored light, saturating the room and everything it contains
—except the sound.
Sense Absence was recorded by Quatuor Bozzini in the Sendesaal at Radio Bremen. Programming by Tim Stutts.
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