{"title":"SN Variations","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"musarc-and-heleen-van-haegenborgh-affordances","title":"Musarc and Heleen Van Haegenborgh 'Affordances'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAffordances presents four works written by Belgian composer Heleen van Haegenborgh for UK experimental choral ensemble Musarc between 2019–25. Scored for voices and free melodic instruments, each piece tunes into a different dimension of the vibrant and oracular polyphony of the chorus, its joyful hallucinations, its many languages and the many ways it has with the world as a body of bodies, singular and plural: at times sounding restrained and hauntingly beautiful, at other times triumphant and clear. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new series of miniatures for violin written by van Haegenborgh especially for the album seems to look back on the process of making the music, speaking from the middle, like a mnemonic chorus of one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded over two days in April 2025 at Luca School of Arts, Ghent, Affordances offers a view into Musarc’s quietly radical, and maybe unrecordable, approach to what a choir can do and the unique space it can creates for artists, musicians and singers to develop new ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOli Kitching (conductor) \u003cbr\u003eJoseph Kohlmaier (creative director)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlayers:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSoloists for Implicit Affordances \u003cbr\u003eSophie Barshall \u003cbr\u003eSam Belinfante \u003cbr\u003eFranziska Böhm \u003cbr\u003eJoseph Kohlmaier \u003cbr\u003eKirsty Lewis \u003cbr\u003eMichael Poole \u003cbr\u003ePaul Klinck – violin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstrumentalists for Hidden Affordance: \u003cbr\u003eAndrea Bacallado Rivero – violin \u003cbr\u003eFranziska Böhm – flute \u003cbr\u003eToon Callier – electric guitar \u003cbr\u003ePaul Klinck – viola \u003cbr\u003eMargit Kraft – cello \u003cbr\u003eIñaki Marcos Bueno – clarinet \u003cbr\u003eSaori Miraku – synthesizer \u003cbr\u003eAndy Cowton – percussion \u003cbr\u003eAda Egg Koskiluoma – percussion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded at Luca School of Art, Ghent, March 2025 \u003cbr\u003eMusic composed by Heleen Van Haegenborgh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklisting:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Material Affordance (Movement 1 of 3) \u003cbr\u003e2. Material Affordance (Movement 2 of 3) \u003cbr\u003e3. Material Affordance (Movement 3 of 3) \u003cbr\u003e4. Implicit Affordances \u003cbr\u003e5. Pieces for Violin \u003cbr\u003e6. Possible Affordance \u003cbr\u003e7. Hidden Affordance (Instrumental) \u003cbr\u003e8. Hidden Affordance\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SN Variations","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":55871720423801,"sku":"SN15","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0238\/8053\/files\/Affordances-MusarcandHeleenVanHaegenborgh.jpg?v=1761581835"}],"url":"https:\/\/cargorecordsdirect.co.uk\/collections\/sn-variations.oembed","provider":"Cargo Independent Distribution","version":"1.0","type":"link"}