Sun Rings

Composed by Terry Rileyfor string quartet, chorus and pre-recorded spacescapes A transcendent, visually spectacular musical odyssey into the farthest reaches of the Solar System.The Kronos Quartet, one of the most esteemed string quartets in the world, presents the Australian debut of its highly acclaimed Sun Rings. An artistic commission by NASA, and a collaboration between Kronos, composer Terry Riley and visual designer/director Willie Williams, Sun Rings is a majestic amalgam of chamber music, hypnotic visuals and the ethereal 'whistles' of deep space, as recorded and transmitted by the Voyager spacecraft.Across ten movements - or 'spacescapes' - Sun Rings soars through the outermost limits of our understanding of the universe: the whirrs and clicks of electrons flaring against the atmosphere of Jupiter are woven together with a score of creeping strings and an undulating live chorus of voices, while flickering images of the astral landscape tremble across a vast backdrop....