Hekate's Voices

<p dir="ltr"><i>'But when you see the sacred fire without form, Shining skittishly throughout the depths of the Cosmos, Listen to the voice of the fire.'</i><br>— Hekate, Chaldean Oracles, fragment 148<br><br>HEKATE’S VOICES is the latest fruit of the collaborative partnership between composer Ed Cooper and pianist Kate Ledger. Sitting between ambient and experimental genres, this work is a meditation on transience and intimacy.

The 40-minute piece uses witchcraft as its inspiration, attempting to invoke the powerful but ever elusive Hekate between its materials: recordings of Mother Shipton’s Cave and Pendle Hill, multi-tracked piano, distant vocals, and unexpected heartbeats. These materials often hover around and within each other, collapsing as they come into focus, as if the piece is a mediator between internal and external realities. Contorted, bittersweet expression is entangled with emotional blankness, making the two indistinct from each other.