A quartet of strings with occasional percussion supplying mostly quiet, sound-based (as opposed to melodic or rhythmic based) improvisations. As is the usual case with releases on Creative Sources, the beautiful recordings bring out the detailed nuances and frequent harmonic ghosts. The brief title track lets us know what we're in for, as massed bowing congeals into a thick block of hiss and sing, growing slightly louder and heavier over its 4 and a half minute running time, with faint beating skirting the edges; succinct. "Being — Or Remaining" features a more pointillistic approach at first, plucks and knocks and very quiet string bounce with high-pitched chords and sporadic strums. Ebbing into near silence and what could possibly be chair creaks, before starting off again with drum-head patter and pizzicato strings building to near full-throated all-in; a bell sounds.

I can imagine that many people nowadays engage in this sort of collective improvising as a thing in itself to do. A way to pass time pleasurably in the company of friends. The playing here is however of a very high caliber, engaged in by folks with heightened listening abilities. The flow of the pieces makes perfect sense, and rewards close attention.