[Hesse’s music] moves along the boundary between presence and absence, where sound (or action) and silence become equally essential. The work opens slowly, as if the listener steps into a room where every tone is already waiting, still and vibrating in the air. Its timbral colors emerge subtly, persistently, yet never intrusively. A breath through a flute, a tender, barely perceptible bowing, tiny shifts in intonation, everything carries meaning, nothing seems left to chance, but rather attentively heard into being.

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(Visby International Centre for Composers)