Affordances presents four works writ­ten by Belgian com­pos­er Heleen van Haegenborgh for UK exper­i­men­tal choral ensem­ble Musarc between 2019 – 25. Scored for voic­es and free melod­ic instru­ments, each piece tunes into a dif­fer­ent dimen­sion of the vibrant and orac­u­lar polypho­ny of the cho­rus, its joy­ful hal­lu­ci­na­tions, its many lan­guages and the many ways it has with the world as a body of bod­ies, sin­gu­lar and plur­al: at times sound­ing restrained and haunt­ing­ly beau­ti­ful, at oth­er times tri­umphant and clear. A new series of minia­tures for vio­lin writ­ten by van Haegenborgh espe­cial­ly for the album seems to look back on the process of mak­ing the music, speak­ing from the mid­dle, like a mnemon­ic cho­rus of one. Recorded over two days in April 2025 at Luca School of Arts, Ghent, Affordances offers a view into Musarc’s qui­et­ly rad­i­cal, and maybe unrecord­able, approach to what a choir can do and the unique space it can cre­ates for artists, musi­cians and singers to devel­op new ideas (J. Kohlmaier)