Lara Somogyi’s “mirabel” Maps Geometric Patterns Through Harp and Electronics

Lara Somogyi has released “mirabel,” a second look at her forthcoming album a [time] patterned, due August 28 on Mercury KX. The track follows “sojourn” in a set of compositions concerned with the way patterns emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure.

Somogyi built the piece from a series of intuitive harp arpeggios that, as she worked, began to feel almost geometric. She describes shapes that are triangular and tessellated, constantly refracting into new rhythmic forms through the instrument and electronics. String arrangements move differently—circular, expansive, emotive—creating a kind of orbit around the harp’s kaleidoscopic motion. The score mirrors this thinking. Circular notation and intersecting lines visualize the spatial, sculptural experience Somogyi had while writing.

What surfaces is a short work that treats texture and motion as architectural elements. No ambient drift here; the focus stays tight on how repetition mutates and light folds into shadow. Across two previews, a [time] patterned already reads less like a set of songs and more like a study in cycles. Somogyi’s harp becomes a tool for tracing how order bends and new shapes take hold.