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Nothing Elsewhere (1987-2005) |
Nothing elsewhere, originally written in 1987 and recomposed in 2005 to a commission from Elision, is the fourth in a group of eleven works collectively entitled Fictions. Its title is taken from near the end of Samuel Beckett’s prose piece Imagination dead imagine: “Leave them there, sweating and icy, there is better elsewhere. No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness...” The music, after “disposing” of the idea of dense, abrasive and “virtuosic” activity, circles precariously around a drastically attenuated sonic repertoire which could as easily spin itself out indefinitely as end at any point.
© Richard Barrett