The religious piece
Tikkun Nefesh for flute and electronics by Concordia Electroacoustics professor
Eldad Tsabary will be featured in the upcoming issue (winter 2010) of
Musicworks magazine themed around the topic of "music as power". The issue will include a two-page article titled "Eldad Tsabary: composing religion", based on an interview with Tsabary conducted by Nick Storring, and an audio CD with the work.
The "music as power" issue will also feature live soundscape recordings from Toronto's G20 protests by Micheline Roi, as well as works by Kyle Brenders, Nadine Byrne, Graham Flett, Juliet Palmer, Mattias Petersson, Henrik Rylander, Paul Steenhuisen, and Barry Truax.
About the piece: Tikkun Nefesh is about the process of healing the soul from old hurts, angers, guilt, damaging patterns, and stagnation, of allowing oneself to observe old angers and fears and see them dissolve into the infinite love that they have been masking. The Kabalistic concept of Tikkun Nefesh is the idea that repairing damages (Kilkulim) in one's soul has a direct constructive effect on repairing the whole world (Tikkun Olam), as we are all part of a great chain of being. Imbalances in the world stem from imbalances in ourselves, and therefore we are all responsible for repairing our personal Kilkulim.
Tsabary's compositions often focus on interreligious matters, such as community, charity, goodness, prayer, faith, spiritual growth, and love.
