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Your support makes all the difference.As on 2011's Landscapes, topography and natural history are integral to Toshio Hosakawa's work. Performed by the Arditti Quartet, "Landscape 1" offers a harsh, rock-strewn vista, while the more recent "Silent Flowers", "Floral Fairy" and "Blossoming" reflect his interest in ikebana, the Japanese art of flower-arranging.
The latter fades in as a single glistening tone, representing a still pond, gradually broadening as the water is disturbed by a lotus flower opening in the sun. It's dreamlike, pastoral and secretive.
Elsewhere, the sonic brush-strokes, stabbing pizzicato and oozing cello in "Kalligraphie" bear out Hosakawa's belief that, "Music is calligraphy, using sounds painted on the canvas of silence".
Download: Blossoming; Floral Fairy; Silent Flowers; Kalligraphie
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