Ensemble Dal Niente - portrait RE / Flux / Pacific Time Ensemble Dal Niente 's recent album features three composers, each of whom have a history of collaboration with the group. The commissioned works all have their own unique approach to Dal Niente's expertise with experimental music. As a whole, the album is an incredible example of how successful new works can be when there is a strong relationship between composers and the ensemble. Igor Santos' portrait R E  opens the album. T he sixteen-minute work for sampler and large ensemble immediately creates a grand sense of atmosphere with electronic white noise and ambient-sounding swells in the ensemble. Pretty quickly, the sampler sounds Santos chooses come across as cliché and the computer start-ups noises gimmicky . Despite this, Santos incorporates some incredible moments of beauty throughout the piece. His use of the recording of Paulo Freire and dec onstructing it with the low instruments in the ensemble is both eng...