Jack Quartet - Clara Iannotta: Earthing

On her portrait recording �earthing� the Berlin-based composer Clara Iannotta concentrates on the string quartet genre. Therefore she takes inspiration mostly from the idea of an underwater world and the small animals that let their luminous organs glow in the deep. The resulting music seems to be under the pressure of water masses but happens in an environment of expanded time. At the beginning of her journey into unknown depths Iannotta works with minimalistic and fragile sounds: �They sharpen your sense of hearing, just as eyes can only slowly become accustomed to darkness�. Though at times her music can mount up to enormous and complex structures.