Nothingness; Life, Nothingness is an electroacoustic suite in three movements by NUM, commissioned by CTM Festival, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and The Wire Magazine. Composed between Tbilisi and Berlin (2019–2020), the piece explores the experience of time as a transitional, suspended condition.

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Each movement represents a temporal dimension: the past is vast and textured, shaped by memory, history, and collective transformation; the present is intimate and improvisational, symbolized by NUM’s live performance and layered voice; and the future is an echo—an ambiguous synthesis of all that has come before, dissolving into nothingness.​

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Composed and recorded by NUM

Tbilisi, Berlin | 2019–2020

 

Commissioned by

CTM Festival, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and The Wire Magazine

 

Recorded by NUM

at Mainland Media Studios, January–February 2020