Warm Winters Ltd. welcomes Argentinian, Berlin-based composer Ángeles Rojas with her new piece ‘Open the windows and let the spirits in and out’. Originally commissioned by the Buenos Aires festival RUIDO, the work documents Rojas’s closing performance of its 2023 edition.
Performed on a Klais Opus 1912 organ with an ensemble of violin, cello, soprano flute, piccolo, baritone saxophone, trombone and bass clarinet distributed throughout the space, the piece unfolds over 30 minutes. Sustained tones remain in the air while subtle variations in timbre, intonation and beating patterns slowly emerge, shaping a continuous and immersive acoustic field.
The presence of the space itself becomes part of the piece; small sounds from the audience, such as movements or distant breaths, are not separate from the music but gently fold into it. In this way, ‘Open the windows and let the spirits in and out’ suggests a permeability between sound, space and listening, where what is already present is allowed to appear.