Usually, we can almost instantly identify what instrument we are listening to. On the other hand, things that we hear can be different from what we believe t...

An installation by Cyrill Lim and Marcel Zaes, 2020 Sound recording performers: Mary-Kim Arnold, Alexander Dupuis, Martim S. Galvão, Cyrill Lim, Mirjam Paninski, My Tran and Marcel Zaes Audio recording: Lee Gilboa Booklet text: “In Absentia” by Nora N. Khan Booklet drawings: Cyrill Lim and Marcel Zaes Booklet layout: Tracy Yu First shown at Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 2020, funded in part by the Brown Arts Initiative and in part by the Canton of Zug, Switzerland

This is our version of "Here Comes the Sun", originally by "The Beatles". You might have heard their name. I'm sure they've never played it at 5:30 AM, outside, when it's 4℃.

moln (for solo bass flute, bass clarinet, string quartet, percussion, and multi-channel electronics) performed by Laura Cocks and the Talea Ensemble pre-recorded flute parts performed by Laura Cocks On April 28th, 1986, Sweden's second largest nuclear power plant, Forsmark, detected heightened levels of radiation. The staff at the plant were worried that an accident had taken place, however, after coordinated analyses by nuclear physicists, meteorologists, reactor experts, and even jet fighter pilots who flew through the radioactive cloud they discovered that the source of the radiation was 1,100 kilometers away in the Ukrainian town of Chernobyl. The early detection by the Forsmark plant, one hour north of Stockholm, played a crucial role in forcing Soviet authorities to open up about the disaster that happened in Chernobyl. Moln, the Swedish word for "Cloud," is written for the Talea Ensemble with soloist Laura Cocks