What Then Renders These Forces Visible
30 Jun 2026, 7 pm

Cassidy's music is an exploration of the physical; sound-creating gestures choreographed with intensity bring a fully embodied and visceral approach to music-making. The level of detail Aaron Cassidy brings to his invention finds natural partnership in the lyrical and fluidly expressive music of Liza Lim, Turgut Erçetin, and the hyper-virtuosic Richard Barrett.

ELISION’s work, as an ensemble, has focused increasingly on pushing physical boundaries in search of certain kinds of visceral expressive experiences, the musical body in extremis being a benchmark of the repertoire. In a digitised world where physical presence is frequently replaced by avatars generating enormously complex effects, ELISION continues to be fascinated by an artisanal and intimately gestural approach to the production of music – those co-creative processes of dialogue with composers in which musicians imagine, develop and build new technical and expressive means.

The pieces in this concert programme, with the exception of one, have all been written specifically for ELISION and its musicians, and, the working relationships with these composers reach back as far as 1986.