Bahar Royaee: Memories of a Stone Sitting under the Skin of the Water on the Lake

Memories of a Stone Sitting under the Skin of the Water on the Lake There is an image on the horizon of my memory that evaporates, like a stone lying beneath the rippling surface of the water on the lake. The shape of the stone changes and distorts, dissolving into pixels as the water stretches and transforms. With every distortion, the stone vanishes in the memory of time, like a body in exile, oppressed by the vast seas between lands, and becomes pixels of its cells in the memory of all souls.

 

This piece is about restoring that evaporated memory by repeating its pixels in the four corners of the quartet. It places ornamentation (pixels) at the centre of the music, presenting rhythm as a »phenomenon of bodily movement,« and explores the perception of time among the musicians through the experience of multiple timelines that unfold and fold within a fabric woven from ornaments.

(Bahar Royaee)