Explore Ensemble

Explore Ensemble – Perfect Offering (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:44:59 minutes | 901 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Huddersfield Contemporary Records

Perfect Offering invites the listener to journey with the ensemble, inhabiting and exploring four vibrant, imaginary landscapes. Each is underlined by themes of place and space, ecstasy and tranquillity, lightness and darkness, as well as ambience, transience, refraction, and silence. There is a diverse interest in harmony evident in the music collected here – each composer exhibits a distinctive idiolect, ranging from Cassandra Miller’s entirely white note radiance to Rebecca Saunders’ haunting atonal timbralism, Lisa Illean’s spectrally-tinged, weathered sounds, and Lawrence Dunn’s wonky and surrealist tonalities.

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