With music we can listen to time passing. It reveals the mechanisms of attention, how it shapes our experience – widening and narrowing the horizon of time. My aim is to design the experience of time with sound.

I aspire to find beauty in strange, otherworldly sounds, to expose their inner world, and through their unfolding – to reveal the nature of time. Each timbre – a carefully crafted jewel – is sequenced to create a space for lingering. Drawing from improvised music, contemporary classical, and folk traditions, I use formal processes, microtonality, cyclic forms, and ritualistic structures to create something that exists between worlds.

I want listeners to feel like they're enveloped in sound, participating in a ritual that's alien yet welcoming. The music should create a hunger for presence, for lingering in the moment.

Edgars Cīrulis (b. 1996) is a Latvian composer whose work explores time as the primary compositional material. Drawing from gamelan structures, microtonality, and ritualistic forms, he creates immersive sonic experiences that reveal the elasticity of temporal perception. In 2026, he is founding Maģiskais Reālisms, an ensemble dedicated to performing his music at the intersection of composed precision and improvised spontaneity.

Recent works include Time (chamber ensemble), Love Itself (choir with texts from Thich Nhat Hanh), It Unfolds (piano), and Time is Another River (orchestra). His music has been performed by the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, State Choir "Latvija," and ensembles across Europe, with international appearances at festivals in Germany, Denmark, Norway, and the UK. In 2020, he was nominated for Young Musician of the Year at the Latvian Grand Music Award.

Cīrulis studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aalborg with Søren Møller and is completing composition studies with Krists Auznieks at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music.