“Celebrating the death of civilization, Batu’s open, rectangular sound suggests the rims of flame in containing fires, or entrances to tombs, like the doors of the dead, which were meant to shout out the living from the place of absolute might, even of patrician death, these songs – open sarcophagi – moodily dare, and thus invite the spectator to enter their Orphic mythology: the artist descending to Hades to find the Eurydice of his vision. The door to the tomb opens for the artist in search of his muse.”