An evening of luminous music for string quartet and voice. This music performance will consist of three distinct pieces of music, each inspired by ideas of origin: of the earth, the sea, the forest, the night sky, the creatures we’ve evolved from and through. Each score contains something of the elemental within it, something half-remembered, touched with ancient light that should fill a listener with wonder. Our origins live within us. The music and the texts touch on many other themes—memory, reverie, childhood, longing, loss, dispossession, history, politics, astonishment, transformation and joy—with the knowledge that each is but a few degrees from the other.