A Dust in Time
Music
American-Chinese composer Huang Ruo wrote A Dust in Time, a meditative journey in which the strings of Asko|Schönberg never let go of each other for a moment.
Zandmandala
He compares A Dust in Time to a Tibetan sand mandala: a complex figure first meticulously crafted and then destroyed. The music grows from a single point to colourful fullness, then shrinks and disappears. Time seems to disappear. Spatial total experience Huang Ruo drew inspiration from lockdown experiences of himself and others. The crisis shrouded our lives in shadow, the composer felt. With A Dust in Time, he created an acoustic space ‘to reflect, to mourn, to find inner peace and hope with. The staging makes this a spatial total experience, where the spectator will be immersed in a play of music, light and time.
The press on A Dust in Time: ‘From a whisper-soft duet of cello and viola, a pulsating vision develops extremely slowly, which after the course of an hour dissolves just as slowly into nothingness again. Fascinating, and an impressive feat of concentration by the players'. (Trouw)