Ashley Fure鈥檚 Bound to the Bow made her a Pulitzer-Prize finalist and is a mesmerising piece, at once rigorous and evocative, inspired by Coleridge鈥檚 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. measurement as contrition is, in the composer鈥檚 words, 鈥渁n inaccessible, distant, privately meditative hovering over the measurement of spaces and the weighing of volumes鈥� The orchestra is there, in large part, as potential, an outer bound鈥�. In Praise of Darkness was written for the Dark Music Days festival in Reykjav铆k, and Haraldsd贸ttir explores the dark using unusual tunings, loops and natural cycles. Berlin-based Canadian composer Marc Sabat typically draws inspiration from investigations of the sounding and perception of Just Intonation, and his new 大象传媒 Commission explores 鈥済radually shifting harmonic constellations with melodic counterpoints鈥�.
