In their first public performance as a duo, Hilary Jeffery and Marcus Pal present a full day of music with roots in their work with Catherine Christer Hennix in the ensemble Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. Hennix’s “inifinitary composition” Soliton(e) Star, which is continuously sounding as part of the current exhibition, constitutes the sonic ground state that the two musicians will gradually traverse over the course of the day.

Using trombone, trumpet and voice in multilayered fields of long sustained tones, precisely tuned to Soliton(e) Star according to the principles of just intonation, the musicians will reactivate the musical and philosophical practice refined by Hennix in the context of her work with Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. Central to this practice is that the music is allowed to form over a long period of time, and that minimal significance is attributed to how any given episode of sound begins or ends. The main focus instead lies on sonic depth and harmonic fusion in momentary attention to sound, a focus which can lead the attentive listener all the way through the sound and out to its reverse side, where experience gains new and mystical meaning, entirely freed from time.  

Concert format

Hilary Jeffery and Marcus Pal will perform repeatedly throughout the day starting at 11:00 when the exhibition space opens. The day concludes with a continuous episode of sustained tuning, from 17:00 to 18:30, at which point the audience is guaranteed to encounter the music in its fully activated form.