Pippa Murphy - Ranga (2000) 4'22
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‘Ranga’ is the Sanskrit root of the word ‘raga’ meaning ‘colour’. This piece is a continuous flow of sound polyphony; layering and cross-fading sustained bell like sounds whose characteristic frequencies are caught in different light. Hindus view the origin of their music as divine and the art of music making as spiritual and a way of self-realisation. They refer to ‘ahata’ (audible sound) and ‘anahata’ (inaudible sound). The anahata can only be heard by those who have achieved consciousness to such a level that they become one with the cosmos. The colour polyphony explored in Ranga was also inspired by Derek Jarman’s Chroma which reminds us how much there is to be smelled, observed and listened to in the world if we do not walk past it.
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