'Infra'. A series of movements away and beneath rises from an endless static sea, a lone pianist bringing forth Schubert's 'Winterreise'. He meets mournful strings unperturbed by bird mass oscillations cavorting in their weightlessness. A brief distance from the swarming brings clarity and allows our pianist to bare his soul in a strident and plain spoken manner, a simple and familiar emotional barrage belittled not by these qualities. Following his confession, a darker, confined ambience envelopes, the humanity of strings is suffused, and a rhythmic, rising tear of compression accelerates. This is lent grace and movement by woven violins, and a soul by a cello.
“A piece on the theme of journeys, like a road movie or a travellers notebook, or like the second unit in a film when the scene has been played and the image cuts away to the landscape going by.”
A darker place is encountered, tighter static, possibly malevolent but still unable to suppress a resonating warm ring; both gradually lessen, leaving nought but one human sorrow held aloft by others like it. A sparse, distant interference occurs through a passage of fragile and tired expression before the mountain of history and human plight is seen, always growing. Its size cannot be taken in concurrently. A foundation for feeling old and new. Soaring grandeur and flailing sadness. Our protagonist collides with another before falling, crumbling into the static sea, cracked and consumed by the wind of sonic by-product. After the heat and solitude, familiar faces reappear but are changed by the shadows of the heights that were scaled. Here, movement is examined not ridden before everything is laid bare in a final, resolute but scared sinking.
A meeting on the road of an old traveller in and with a new world. He's shone in an aged light and beautified modernity.