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Jane Sheldon – Come, dark sigh (2025)

Ensemble Offspring presents Come, dark sigh by Jane Sheldon, recorded at The Neilson, ACO on the Pier, Sydney on 3 July 2025. Jane Sheldon – Come, dark sigh (2025)* soprano, bass flute, clarinet, viola, double bass, percussion, backing track *World premiere “Come, dark sigh is a response to the Buddhist concept of vibhava-taṇhā: the desire for non-existence, in which one takes self-annihilation to be a path to transcendence, erroneously or not. (Another error is its opposite - bhava-tanha - the desire for eternal existence, somehow avoiding death.) Sheldon is not particularly interested in the intellectual, doctrinal debates around these concepts. Rather, her interest lies in the direct experience of what they are intended to name. For example, one translator, Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu, describes the particular clinging of bhava-tanha as “close to lust” (sārāgāya santike, also translated as near the heavens). In Sheldon’s experience, the actual embodiment in meditation (subtle though it is) of its opposite - of vibhava-taṇhā - has much greater resemblances to lust. Sheldon suggests some of that sensuality at certain moments in the music. “It was this desire to focus on the embodied experience of vibhava-taṇhā that led Sheldon to set van Lerberghe’s poem, which also serves as the final poem of Faure’s La Chanson d’Eve, a work she adores singing. The focus of Faure and van Lerberghe is likewise on Eve’s embodiment as she awakens in the garden of Eden, and has no doctrinal message; in fact it has refreshingly minimal engagement with the story’s concepts and symbolism, and with the conventions of its telling.” Artists Jane Sheldon (soprano) Claire Edwardes (Artistic Director, percussion) Lamorna Nightingale (bass flute) Jason Noble (clarinet) Henry Justo (viola) Benjamin Ward (double bass) Peachey & Mosig (live video art) Benjamin Carey (sound) Veronique Benett (lighting design) Video and Audio by Matthew McGuigan (Hospital Hill) © Ensemble Offspring 2025 https://www.ensembleoffspring.com/ Ensemble Offspring is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and by the NSW government through Create NSW. We work and play on Gadigal land.