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Inward (1994-95) |
afl.1perc (both amplified) - 7'
Inward for flute and percussion was begun in 1994 and completed in October 1995. It was first performed (as part of the conglomerate work Opening of the Mouth) in Perth in March 1997, by Paula Rae and Peter Neville. In this composition, a window is opened onto a music of intimate discourse, with itself, with the too-much of everything else, with an endlessly compulsive search for (?), through the medium of a sounding tube which modulates and extrapolates a tenuous vocalisation: the flute as ein Fleisch mit der Nacht (Paul Celan), the percussion as a backdrop of shadows cast by an unseen (unheard) external presence.
© Richard Barrett, Amsterdam 4 September 1995s