Recorded organ sound and piano sounds.
One hour one minute.
A very, very soft organ sound in the background, with interruptions.
"A few years back I attended a talk given by Eva-Maria in which she beautifully discussed her interest in how sounds decay, dissolving into whatever they fall into, the exact point when they end never entirely clear. Decay is a quite lovely study of that simple phenomena. The organ sounds are typically Houben, long, earthily low and very, very quiet, so quiet in fact that at normal volume and without headphones they are barely discerned at all when they are present, and when they disappear, as they do in part of the piece, you barely notice. Then into this nearly blank canvas Houben drops a series of single piano notes of varying pitch and timbre, some cleanly struck, some played with prepared strings. Each however is allowed to decay slowly and naturally, so dissolving into the faintly tinted background. The effect is like throwing stones into a still pond and watching the resulting rings of ripples expand and die away, the point when the ripples are no longer perceivable impossible to ascertain." - Richard Pinnell
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Eva-Maria Houben / organ, piano
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Recorded by Bileam Kümper and Eva-Maria Houben at Thomas Morus, Krefeld (Germany) 2013.
