{"product_id":"affordances-md","title":"Affordances","description":"\u003cp\u003eAffordances presents four works written by Belgian composer Heleen van Haegenborgh for UK experimental choral ensemble Musarc between 2019–25. Scored for voices and free melodic instruments, each piece tunes into a different dimension of the vibrant and oracular polyphony of the chorus, its joyful hallucinations, its many languages and the many ways it has with the world as a body of bodies, singular and plural: at times sounding restrained and hauntingly beautiful, at other times triumphant and clear. A new series of miniatures for violin written by van Haegenborgh especially for the album seems to look back on the process of making the music, speaking from the middle, like a mnemonic chorus of one. Recorded over two days in April 2025 at Luca School of Arts, Ghent, Affordances offers a view into Musarc’s quietly radical, and maybe unrecordable, approach to what a choir can do and the unique space it can creates for artists, musicians and singers to develop new ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SN Variations","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53448854110539,"sku":"R0804-2182","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Affordances-MusarcandHeleenVanHaegenborgh.jpg?v=1758551791","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/affordances-md","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}