Originally written in 1999 for the Brazilian ensemble Uakti, the work returns here in a new transcription, developed in collaboration with Philip Glass.
Led by Dutch Music Prize winner DOMNIQ, the ensemble brings together three percussionists, flute, and strings. The music expands into an evening-length performance, combining percussion, self-built instruments, electronics, light, and instruments from different traditions.
The program reflects on our relationship with water. What remains, what echoes, when the source disappears.
I have always been drawn to water. Its movement, its memory, and the way it connects us. This fascination lies at the centre of this project, built around Águas da Amazônia.
We work with instruments from different places. A balafon from Burkina Faso, a unique Glass Marimba from Brazil, flutes built in the United States, a singing saw, alongside our own instruments such as the slapaphone. Together, they form a sound world that shifts with each performance.
I was inspired by Elif Shafak's novel There Are Rivers in the Sky, where a single drop of water travels through time, carrying memory and linking cultures. That idea, that water preserves and transforms, runs through the entire work.
Like water, the project adapts. Each space, each audience changes how it unfolds. It continues to grow.
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