Concerto for Lost Frequencies is presented as a fictional live recording—captured at the Tokyo International Forum as it appears in That Which Remembers Us. The performance is attributed to the Noema Orchestra: ten physically distinct musicians operating bespoke instruments, conducted by Lucas Vireaux. The album is produced as a document from within the novel’s world.

Bloom 9: Returning Tides.

Excerpt from the novel:

Lucas wrote: The ensemble taught me how to listen differently—not only for harmony or rhythm, but for intention. For how sound moved through the body that gave it shape, and how it asked to be received.

The rehearsal hall had once been a chapel. Sound lingered there, held in the beams long after it faded. The players worked in physical response—through breath, gesture, delay. Some spoke. Others signalled, blinked, or adjusted, just so slightly. Nothing felt slow. Everything felt deliberate.

I stopped composing. And started mapping.

What I began to sketch were more than scores. Kinematographs: graphic terrains of gesture, pressure, timing, and attention. Sound was no longer imposed or conducted. It was shared.

“I don’t control sound,” Nahla signed once. “I court it. I let it come closer.”