Each piece in Splits of functions like a shard of a broken mirror: an autonomous surface reflecting a complex reality from its own distinct angle. With new compositions by Simon Bahr and Sergei Leonov, winners of Duet 2.26’s first open call, in dialogue with works by Luis Codera Puzo, Diego Luzuriaga, and François Sarhan, the program constructs a fragmentary microcosm unfolding through multiple perspectives. Within this universe, musical identity is never fixed. It is quoted, displaced, refracted, and transformed. What appears familiar dissolves into distortion and multiplicity, as if the mirror were incapable of returning the same image twice. Splits of does not follow a linear narrative. Instead, it invites a polyhedral mode of listening in which each fragment carries a partial, provisional truth. Time itself becomes elastic-stretched, compressed, suspended; so that coherence arises not from continuity, but from the tension between reflection and fracture.
