PREMIERE | Quiet Takes, “Meri Said” (Spruce Street Version)

Adapting a personal work to a more minimalist form provides new revelations to the artist, and their audience. Stripping away any embellishments and elaborate appendages when done delicately can deliver new accents and enhanced perspectives to the voice and views of the artistic entity in question. Eschewing the pratfalls of reductive or diminished alterations, re-envisioning a work gives it a new life. From remixing a track stem by stem, to re-conceptualizing a piece through more rudimentary instruments and creative tools; one of the many tenets of art is how it asks the artist for interpretations and re-interpretations. New renditions exhibited and expressed through more intimate means can connect to a central core of our collective humanity that elicits new responses, new meanings, deeper realizations, and a resonance that rings and rattles with emanations of the sacred and sublime.

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