‘Flight Instructions’ – a new work by Amos Elkana – written for the Meitar ensemble will be premiered on December 27th in a high profile concert alongside new works by Chaya Czernowin and Georg Haas.

Flight Instructions is conceived as a guided inner journey — a continuous trip in sound, image, and sensation. Inspired by the short verbal cues that accompany psychedelic exploration, the work uses fragments of text as gentle provocations: invitations to look, release, trust, and move toward the unknown. These cues appear and dissolve within a sonic world that unfolds in slow, almost imperceptible transformations.

The soundscapes shift gradually from one state to the next, creating a sense of fluid motion rather than discrete sections. Electronics extend and complement the timbres of the ensemble, blurring the boundary between acoustic and digital presence. The video layer functions similarly: not as illustration, but as a parallel stream of perception that deepens the listener’s immersion.

Rather than telling a story, Flight Instructions offers a space to inhabit — a sustained, evolving trip where sound, breath, and attention become the terrain itself.

Program Lost Tracks:

• Omer Bush – To Length and Width, premiere, 2024
• Giora Friedman Haas – The Third Month, premiere, 2024
• Chaya Czernowin – Child of the Earth, premiere
• Pierre Boulez – Messagesquisse, for solo cello and 6 cellos, 1977 (Yoni Gotlibovich, cello soloist)
• Amos Elkana – Flight Instructions, for ensemble, video and electronics (2025), world premiere

In collaboration with the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum.