The dialectical relationship between near and distant plays a main role in Erik Oña's compositions – not only in his work for ensemble, "Alles Nahe werde fern" [Everything near becomes distant], whose title refers to words by the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges. Using western musical instruments, Oña creates a strange and alien atmosphere that points to a quite different source of inspiration. His work lives from the dichotomy between (emotional) freedom and (structural) restraint, between a high potential for sensual timbres and their rigorous structural underpinnings. It is a productive field of tension that Oña has explored to its imaginary limits. coproduction with Westdeutscher Rundfunk