In The Shallows - Soundscore for the Getty Courtya

Yuval Ron

Artistic and reserved, In The Shallows is Yuval Ron's 52-minute score for an interpretive dance performance. A most contemplative place awaits In The Shallows… Yuval Ron and cohorts present a sparse-yet-evocative production as exotic and contemporary instrumentation is applied to serious, introspective pieces. Meditative Mount mantra is enshrouded in austere droning layers from which electrical entities seems to emerge; feminine wails soar to higher registers, wavering in the windswept heights. Swishy fluids pour forth as Water music spreads in an expansive pool of assorted soundforms, including spaciously occurring metallic bowl emanations. Even-quieter tinklings happen as Glass falls over a sedate bed of low reeds and faint streams of keyboarding/processing. Minimal rhythmic pattering begins a Stone dance; the light, clattery percussion picks up in tempo, though maintains a low profile throughout. Brooding depths extend far beneath Rêve d'Éternité in an inexorable current; Tsvetanka Varimezova's faraway chants are siren calls, accented with muffled rhythms. Bracingly lovely! For the finale, Weaving unfurls an ominous blend of deep spectral energies, spare occurrences of mood-altering percussion and emotive flutational scene-setting.