Multifaceted tonal colours, virtuosity, and a field of tension between ruptures and connections characterize the music of Turgut Ercetin. In particular, he illuminates the in-between spaces in a wide variety of dimensions. As Paul Griffiths explains in the booklet, the composer explores “the space between instruments or groups, between harmony and noise […], between spectra, between what is played and what resounds from the performance space.”At the center of the album lies the cycle “Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wortern” (“The Phoneme Between Two Words”). The largest part, (b), draws on one of Turgut Ercetin’s research fields: vanished architecture, here referring to two demolished Byzantine buildings. In this work, the SWR Symphony Orchestra as a modern orchestra meets a Baroque ensemble with musicians from the ELISION Ensemble. However, the two formations do not appear as opposites but as mutually interacting seeds. The smaller pieces (a) and (c) fun