“It sends you, moves you, destroys you with beauty” (Lee Ranaldo)

Sunday’s most remarkable project will no doubt be Hockets for Two Voices by LA-based composer/instrument maker Meara O’Reilly (US). The title refers to her EP of barely 10 minutes, on which hockets (‘a musical technique that involves splitting a single melody into brief phrases and dividing each phrase between several voices or instruments’) are front and centre. 

David Longstreth (Dirty Projectors) described the result as “Bach and Blade Runner at the same time”. Meanwhile, Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth said: “It sends you, moves you, destroys you with beauty”. Hockets for Two Voices will be performed at BRDCST by Linnea Sablosky and the Chinese Mingjia Chen. 

O’Reilly’s name also appeared on Björk’s Biophilia tour, where she contributed to the visuals, and she can also be heard on Shore (2020) by Fleet Foxes.