The Careful Plaiting of Weak Ties

Two spectral worlds of the bowed string, the harmonic and inharmonic, connected by the pitch ‘A’. The quartet use custom-built preparations attached to the strings to make their spectra inharmonic, but always positioned on the string such that the pitch 'A' is present somewhere in the spectrum. "Strength does not come from concentration, purity and unity, but from dissemination, heterogeneity and the careful plaiting of [...] ties that are weak by themselves, and that each tie, no matter how strong, is itself woven out of still weaker threads” - Bruno Latour