Other Minds Festival:
OM 4, Concert 2: 03 “Homeless People” by Henry Brant

Henry Brant is considered to be one of the principal pioneers of spatial music, writing works in which the planned positioning of the performers throughout the hall, as well as on stage, is an essential factor in the composing scheme. About this work Brant writes: "As the 20th Century concludes there is scarcely anyone on the planet who is not in some significant way a member of the universal human species, ‘Homeless People’. As such this multi-layerd phenomenon offers an overpowering subject for musical treatment. The venue of spatial chamber music seems especially appropriate. The four quartet-players are stationed in the corners of the hall; the piano, alone onstage, played directly on the strings and the accordion have no communication with the quartet or with each other."