Described by Alex Ross of the New Yorker as “vast and all-consuming”.
Alvin Curran celebrates the great cities he has inhabited through a series of pieces comprising the piano cycle.

During the performance people are free to wander, absorbing the different architectural and acoustic perspectives of the space. Audiences have been known to meditate, bring their yoga mat, or simply sit or lie down.
The audience is invited to stay for as long as they wish, or to leave and return later; there is no expectation that people stay for the entire duration, allowing them to control their engagement with the artistic experience.

Expectation of the formalised tradition of concert going is suspended, with a 5-hour celebration of space, light, meditation and transcendence of time beyond our normal conception. The audience are invited to participate in a slow listening experience where the music unfolds over a protracted time-frame, moving away from the formality and limitations of the condensed, static listening conventions implicit in the classical traditional concert experience.

“Inner Cities are where you go to get debriefed.”
Alvin Curran, liner notes