
ELISION
CIKADA
Deborah Kayser mezzo-soprano
Carl Rosman clarinets
Daryl Buckley electric guitar
Christian Eggen conductor
DARK MATTER, scored for an ensemble of 19 performers (including soprano, electric guitar and a vast array of percussion) plus live and pre-recorded electronics, sets secret Egyptian texts carved on the walls of sarcophagi in the pyramids of 2400 BC - possibly the oldest known religious texts in the world - alongside fragments from Lucretius and other Greek writers on the nature of matter, the stars and other worlds and ending with Samuel Beckett’s ‘Sounds’.