LIZA LIM/URI CAINE/MUSIKFABRIK

Australian composer Liza Lim based this work for improviser, baritone and sixteen musicians on the Persian texts of the 14th century Sufi poet and mystic Hafez. In Hafez’ poems the worldly and the mystical are subtly intertwined, leading to a form of transcendence. A metaphor often used in this search for illumination is the inn, as a place where the heart, represented as a chalice, is filled with wine and becomes one with God.
In Tongue of the Invisible the concert hall fills this role and becomes a place where musical composition and improvisation lead the listener to a higher plane.