S2 (2015)
(for percussion solo)

Disappearance as a compositional and transcendental experience is the central category of my music. Observing and allowing music to be observed before, during and after disappearance makes it possible to experience compositional borderline situations and transcendental experiences. I am concerned with life, with the experience of composing in a kind of 'transit zone'. This transitional area contains the most fragile, most fluctuating situations of composing in the confrontation between presence and absence. 

S2 addresses the thresholds (S), transitions between sound/time levels and types of disappearance. 

Disappearance is one of the central themes of the Gospel, as the famous episodes of Noli me tangere (John 20:17) and the Last Supper at Emmaus show. S2 allows music to be incorporated and experienced as a potentially transcendental experience.

Mark Andre