Challenging received wisdom

There are silent truths and there are silent lies. Silent truths are usually so self-evident ("night follows day") that we don't need to articulate them. Lies of silence are more potent. They are easier to tell but more painful when they come to light. We know they are there, but we don't admit it. Often they bear witness to the same self-evident phenomena: love, fear, anxiety, which make up the DNA of most animals, ourselves included.

This is the territory where we find Dimitra Trypani, an avant-garde Greek composer who has embarked on a series of unorthodox explorations of the human psyche with, at their center, a deep concern for the wounds, melancholy, confusion, fear and instability that humans inflict on one another and - perhaps more importantly - on themselves. They are reflections of a society that she sees as still dominated by patriarchal values and procedures of...

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