Chaya Czernowin

Anea Crystal

Anea is an invented name for a music-crystal modelled on an ionic crystal. It is a piece written in three independent and individual movements which can be played separately or together.Seed I and Seed II are for string quartet and Anea is for string octet, being built of both Seeds together played simultaneously with some changes.The pieces belong to the series 'Shifting Gravity' together with the pieces Sheva (Seven) and Sahaf (Drift).The five pieces on this series are each a concise and concentrated focus on a singular physical gesture. Close examination of the gesture reveals the strange physical laws of the world in which the gesture exists, and the body performing it. One could conceive of Anea Crystal as an ionic crystal of gestures. Anea Crystal is dedicated to Johannes Kalitzke. Chaya Czernowin