Composition for six instrumentalists. To be played in the dark, the players surrounding the audience.

Commissioned by The Sound of Heavan and Earth Symposium, Starr Auditorium,TATE Modern, London, UK.

Performed by  David Toop-flutes, electronics; John Edwards -bass; Tony Bevan - bass sax;
Rodgeri Davis -harp; Neil Heyede - cello; Andrew Morgan- electronics.

Each musician was given their part as an individual line on a CD to which they listened on a headphone whilst playing what they heard.

“No one here but us chickens”    …and so it has always been, by Kaffe Matthews.
“There is no less holiness at this time — as you are reading this - than there was the day the Red Sea parted. There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha’s bo tree. There is no whit less might in heaven or on earth than there was the day Peter walked on water, or the night Mohammed flew to heaven on a horse. In any instant the sacred may wipe you with its finger. In any instant your feet may rise, or you may see a bunch of souls in a tree. In any instant you may avail yourself of the power to love your enemies; to accept failure, slander, the grief of loss; or to endure torture.

Purity’s time is always now. Purity is no social phenomenon, a cultural thing whose time we have missed, whose generations are dead. Of eternal fulfillment, Tillich said, “If it is not seen in the present, it cannot be seen at all.” [extrct: Annie Dillard 1999]

Works and appearances also by: Luc Ferrari, Eric Roth, David Grubbs, Achim Wollscheid,Anias Nil.
Reviewed by Clive Bell, The Wire.