Négrier, Jules / Maria W Horn : An Iris Crackled Like Eyelids / All Solids Melt Into Aether

JULES NEGRIER - ‘AN IRIS CRACKLED LIKE EYELIDS’ (16:00)
In An Iris Crackled Like Eyelids, Jules Négrier explores two movements, two inner moments separated by the suspended time of an eyelid ‘crackling’. The first movement begins as a story ends, with a release of raw emotions, then blossoms into a broad surface of harmonic divergences. The second movement reintroduces a crossover of rhythms, torsions, descents and ascents to reveal a paradoxical space that unfolds in the time of an unresolved pacification. Inspiredly and intricately exposing sounds that are both diaphanous and tortuous, Jules Négrier composes a mysterious music, a music that draws from the torments of electronic matter forms and becomings that gradually gain ground in the regions of simplicity.

MARIA W HORN - ‘ALL SOLIDS MELT INTO AETHER’ (20:30)
In All Solids Melt Into Aether, Maria W Horn weaves together chords created using an organ pushed to its limits with the relentless textures of computer-generated sounds. Between the extreme, cold precision of the electronic tones and the instability of the warm organ chords subject to pressure variations, a silent drama unfolds, giving rise to a complex world composed of harmonic states which, from their formation to their collapse, induce a powerful and poignant metaphor, conjuring up images of a perpetual, immemorial struggle. This struggle is the one that takes place, every moment, between two opposing energies: one forming the desire for a stable state, seeking a fragile balance, an energy constrained and contradicted, relentlessly, by the forces of entropy and chaos. In this respect, Maria W Horn delivers, with All Solids Melt Into Aether, a work of evocative and introspective power that is truly fascinating.