A clerestory—etymologically a bright or ‘clear’ level or ‘storey’—is an upper section of wall, most often in a church, punctuated by windows. It is a powerful image for grasping this luminous new music from Jules Reidy, which presents a side of their work quite distinct from the dense song-constructs of their Thrill Jockey debut Ghost/Spirit.
“Shadow Symmetric” is a string quartet commissioned by the celebrated JACK Quartet as part of their JACK Studio program. The piece makes simultaneous use of two pitch sets, beginning from the same starting point but expanded using different scaling to produce what Reidy describes as “two offset spectral layers.” Listen below.
