Zwerm

Our Ears Felt Like Canyons

There’s no party better suited to closing Transit than a real guitar party. Flanders’s most electric quartet Zwerm has thought up a fairly unconventional set-up: in a circle, with the audience surrounding them. What’s more, they’ve persuaded a few of the most sought-after composers of the moment to write new works for it. Joanna Bailie, Christopher Trapani and Alexander Schubert in 360° surround-sound should close the season with a bang (and it will!).

"...And we played until our awareness became embedded in the canyon and summoned a ghostly, floating train, an apparition of metal meeting metal, reflected doubly, triply, endlessly from the canyon, from the mind, from the flickering passenger windows, the rumbling ties, OUR EARS FELT LIKE CANYONS. We didn't speak until morning." (Pauline Oliveros)

Composition commission by Zwerm, with the support of ernst von siemens music foundation.