Emily Thorner and United Strings of Europe première Emptiness at The Night With… Festival 2023.
Full programme:
Matthew Whiteside – Emptiness (w.p.)
Claude Vivier – Zipangu
Caroline Shaw – Entr’acte (arr. Julian Azkoul)
Henryk Górecki – Three pieces in the old style
Houtaf Khoury – et le vent qui souffleIn
Joanna Marsh – Winters House (arr. Julian Azkoul)
Jessie Montgomery – Starburst
Matthew Whiteside – Emptiness
Song text:
No one here by that name exists.
Only hints.
Nothing here belongs to us.
We just borrow stars.
Our self, a dream, a burning cloud.
Illusions on the wall
One breaking mind
Driving one fragile body
On one dying planet.
Vast distances of nothing.
We are cosmically mundane.
Looking at infinity.
At Emptiness. Pointlessness.
Silence.