...the music's sonic richness...speaks with remarkable directness and is deeply involving throughout. The performance is consummately elegant, each detail finely etched...the soloists deliver...

Gramophone Magazine, September 2010

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Ensemble InterContemporain, Clement Power

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...the music's sonic richness...speaks with remarkable directness and is deeply involving throughout. The performance is consummately elegant, each detail finely etched...the soloists deliver...

Gramophone Magazine, September 2010

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The libretto is by the Harvard physicist Lisa Randall who has written a best-selling book on her fascinating and complex extra-dimensional theory of the universe. She has re-imagined it as an appropriately cerebral art form. The work was premiered in the Pompidou Centre in Paris. CD2 is an explanatory interview in English with both the composer and the librettist.

Release date: 17th May 2010
Label: Kairos
Catalogue number: KAI0013042
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Parra, H: Hypermusic Prologue

Work length15:18

Ensemble Intercontemporain, James Bobby, Charlotte Ellett
Clement Power

Plane I, "Why this confusion?"

Track length3:33

Plane II, "A wonderful place!"

Track length4:23

Plane III, "This step - a new dimension"

Track length3:07

Plane IV, "The pathway opens"

Track length4:15

Parra, H: * Plane IV, Why disrupt this harmony

Work length48:07

Ensemble Intercontemporain, James Bobby, Charlotte Ellett
Clement Power

Plane IV, "Why disrupt this harmony?!"

Track length3:39

Plane IV, "You are gone"

Track length3:18

Plane IV, "The soft crazy edge"

Track length3:49

Plane IV, "I will describe this strange landscape"

Track length2:11

Plane IV, The Language of the 5th Dimension

Track length6:44

Plane IV, Microscopio, Flamboyant

Track length1:51

Plane V, "This pull, this tug"

Track length5:41

Plane V, Electronic Interlude

Track length4:26

Plane V, Scuro / "As I travel away"

Track length2:38

Plane VI, "How to open up your world"

Track length5:29

Plane VII, "Discordant phenomena"

Track length8:21