An Iris Crackled Like Eyelids / All Solids Melt Into Aether

In Jules Négrier's An Iris Crackled Like Eyelids, two inner moments are separated by the suspended time of an eyelid crackling. The first begins as a story ends, releasing raw emotions, then opening into a broad surface of harmonic divergences.

The second reintroduces a crossover of rhythms, torsions, descents and ascents, revealing a paradoxical space unfolding in the time of an unresolved pacification. Négrier composes mysterious music, exposing sounds both diaphanous and tortuous.

In Maria W Horn's All Solids Melt Into Aether, organ chords pushed to their limits meet relentless computer-generated textures. Between cold electronic precision and unstable, pressure-shifting organ tones, a silent drama unfolds between the desire for stability and the forces of entropy and chaos.