"Within the crumbling ruins of decay there is an inner harmony—a return to the raw essence from which all forms emerge.”

Nature / Decay unites compositions dealing with the beauty of decay and instability. In abyssal zone music, Marco Döttlinger elevates decay itself to a compositional principle, and generates AI-video footage of the musicians performing deep down under the sea. Paul Clift’s Astatine plays with the term for the radioactive element whose name derives from the Greek word for instability. In Cathy van Eck’s performance La Nature dans le Miroir, four musicians move through the space with sensors, loudspeakers, and mirrors, and generate an evolving soundscape in which local bird calls gradually shift into unfamiliar, artificial sounds, blurring the boundary between natural and human-made environments.

Iris ter Schiphorst, in her “posthuman” work Transformationen, reflects on dimensions of time in slow evolutionary processes, drawing on the poem Deep Time by Domenique de Groen. And the new piece by Katarina Gryvul reflects aesthetically on the beauty of transience and the illussion of permanence and stability.