Santa Bušs : 'liminarité' for chamber orchestra : 
chamber orchestra Sinfonietta Rīga, 
conductor Normunds Šnē 
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"Initially 'liminarité' (liminality) was associated with the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete. In the course of time, the notion of liminality has been interpreted more extensively. The dusk is liminal in a sense, and so are revolutions or carnivals, or any secluded way of life, or traveling, or any sudden change. Here we have ambiguity and precariousness, detachment and approaching, the balance between what we know and what we cannot predict, everything dangerous and the fascinating, the reflective wait state and wild thirst for action. Liminality is a waiting room and the interim, when you are rather 'in between' than 'in the middle' – that means you keep seeking for ever more points of reference."

Santa Bušs 'liminarité'

santa.buss@gmail.com

Santa BUŠS is a Latvian composer especially interested in detailed pre-compositional process and working with extra-musical ideas (found in other art forms, physiology, history, mythology, nature, architecture, medicine, sports, philosophy, etc.). 

Though her main focus and form of expression has been linked with instrumental music, lately she has discovered a deep interest in the voice and its possibilities, as well as being keen to expand her approach towards sound, composition and exploring different forms of collaboration. 
This also includes exploring territories between conventional and unconventional notation and performance techniques, as well as experimenting between the boundaries of music, theatre and opera, often focusing on the physical manipulation of instruments and the presence of musicians as a source of drama. 

She has studied both composition and musicology at the Latvian Academy of Music and Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. 

Her works have been performed throughout Europe, in North America and Asia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgBltNTuhvU

Santa Bušs 'liminarité'

Santa Buss