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.

1. Material Affordance (Movement 1 of 3)
2. Material Affordance (Movement 2 of 3)
3. Material Affordance (Movement 3 of 3)
4. Implicit Affordances
5. Pieces for Violin
6. Possible Affordance
7. Hidden Affordance (Instrumental)
8. Hidden Affordance