“Mantras”, a contemporary opera composed by Wim Henderickx for soprano and electronics, received its greek premiere on July 5th during the Festival “Music Theater Days-At the limits of human voice” in Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens.

In “Mantras” Henderickx developed an imaginary language and the soprano can sing in an open form in which she can freely process the evolution of the work. Shri Yantra, for 8 channel soundtracks, serves as an intermission between pieces-or even between the Mantras themselves- with its mellow harmonic field, where the five nature elements were used as a foundation of the sound material: water, fire, air, earth and ether. As basic material for this electronic work, the composer made use of the sound of stones, wood, water, rustle sounds and a sample of the Tibetan cymbal. The structure of the work as well as the spatialisation, were determined by the geometrical forms within the Shri Yantra. As an epilogue, the subltle vocalizing of Elusive time, based as well on the nature elements, is aiming at triggering the listener’s poetical reflection.