Music inspired by:

  • The Canyon by Philip Glass
  • As it Was by Harry Styles
  • Devils in the Canyon by The Strike


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Echoes transports the audience into a sweeping canyon carved by time and alive with sound. The air is dry and still at first, but every note the ensemble releases stirs the landscape. Calls flare out across the open expanse, bounce off towering walls of sandstone, and return transformed—stretched, softened, or fractured into new shapes. The performers become both storytellers and listeners, reacting to the voices that come back to them from unseen distances.

Throughout the show, the canyon acts as a natural amplifier and a mysterious partner. Melodies arc upward like birds lifting into thermal currents before dissolving into shimmering reflections. Harmonic layers drift across the ensemble as if carried by shifting winds, creating the sense that the space itself is breathing with the music. Rhythmic pulses roll forward like falling stones, expanding outward and echoing again in ever-widening circles.

As the journey continues, the ensemble moves deeper into the canyon’s interior, where echoes become more complex—sometimes haunting, sometimes radiant—revealing the terrain’s hidden contours. Light begins to change, and warm hues spill across the walls, signaling the approach of evening. The music follows this transformation, turning more introspective, more spacious, as if the canyon is offering its final replies.

In the closing moments, the ensemble sends one last call into the vastness. The echo that returns is gentle, fading, and suffused with a golden glow. The canyon settles into silence as the sun dips behind the ridgeline, bathing the performers in the final light of day. Echoes concludes not with triumph, but with a quiet, expansive sense of completion—a sunset descent into stillness where sound, space, and memory converge.

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