Repetition
BAC, Visby 2005
The piece was played in the Visby dome church bells at 3 a clock every day for a month.
At the heart of Repetition is the way art and the church have worked together. Here the music of the Arab world and that of the West re-encounter one another in their shared classical inheritance. During the Middle Ages, the latter was strongly influenced by the former. A piece is created for church bells using an Arabic musical scale. As the call to prayer melts into the ringing of bells, our prejudices fade away – and we are transported, listening to something exceptionally captivating and beautiful.