Lacework, diaphanous threads shape the void. The absence of mate­r­i­al cre­ates beau­ty. Also the char­ac­ter ​‘ma’ is con­scious­ly deployed in Japanese music as a silence between two notes or sounds. In this new pro­gramme, IMAGO MUNDI affords a cen­tral role to song lyrics about ​‘sleep’. As we slum­ber, we sur­ren­der to the void and nav­i­gate between dream and real­i­ty, day and night, life and death.
The new com­po­si­tion by Heleen Van Haegenborgh is the gos­samer thread that ren­ders the pat­tern in the lace­work vis­i­ble. IMAGO MUNDI weaves the sounds togeth­er with lute and percussion.

Early, less ear­ly and new music by John Dowland (1563−1626), Johannes Ciconia (1370−1412), John Milton Cage (1912−1992) and
Heleen Van Haegenborgh (1980)