Amoeba’s Dance will slyly step and slide into your heart, in the 1 minute 11 seconds of track 1 Dactylopodial.

6 seconds of track 3 Reticulate your body is quite likely moving. For the ones who dare to dance there are tracks to animate. For attentive ears there is spaciousness with depth, the proximity of the very near to further away – each track an intimate creature with distinct shape shifting momentum, that form this compelling body of music.

With seductive and delicious play by each of the musicians, Amoeba’s Dance is a testament to Silke’s compositions, achieving the rare feat of a perfect balance between the greatest possible freedom in interplay and what happens of its own accord within Silke’s intricate systems.

Predominantly composed during a month-long residency at the Banff Centre Canada in April 2024, and with a recent fascination for amoebas accompanying her, Silke applied a musical matrix to her composing process to clarify small structures and their dynamics. In Banff Library she discovered An Illustrated list of basic morphotypes of Gymnamoebia (Rhizopoda, Lobosea) by Alexey V. Smirnov & Andrew V. Goodkov, whose sketches provided the springboard for Silke’s 18 compositions here.

“I had a basic idea that amoebas move around by changing their shape. I built various small systems that I looked at as if through a microscope. What happens when I go deeper and deeper into the details and then pull the sounds apart again until I am satisfied with them? It was research in tones.” Silke Eberhard