Agape: Peter Margasak for The Wire
Equally stunning is Agape, a 2021 video installation work by Icelandic composer Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir in which four musicians - her partner, the contrabass clarinettist John McCowen, along with percussionist Matthias Engler, harpist Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir and cellist Júlía Mogensen - generate sustained tones according to a flexible score, each appearing sequentially on four separate screens before gradually merging into a dense collage of beautifully recorded drone before their bodies fade into nothingness, the soundtrack into silence.