Agape: Simon Cummings for 5:4

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Agape: Simon Cummings for 5:4

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Another, even more engaging quartet was the focus of Agape by Bergrún Snæbjörnsdottir. Across four large video screens, contrabass clarinet, harp, percussion and cello were progressively unveiled as the constituent parts – fundamental, harmonics, overtones and timbral offshoots – of one complex, resonant sound. As the camera revolved around them, their relationship to each other and to time itself became confused, telescoped, feathering into a delay trail of foreshadows and echoes. There was a growing sense throughout of wanting – needing! – the four to become truly aligned, and when this finally happened its vivid, long-awaited point of focus was glorious.