Giants
Nov 13, 2020, 04:26 PM
The Giants created by Jon Nicholls.
"The three giants exist in a perpetual stasis, and I felt the piece should be a snapshot of a situation rather than something which evolved dynamically.
"The canto opens with a blast on an impossibly loud horn belonging to the first giant, Nimrod; the piece imagines entering the scene the instant after the horn has sounded, leaving only its echoes.
"The sound material is a recording of the only words spoken by any of the giants: ‘Raphel may amech zabi almi’, and the processed sounds of a trumpet."
"The three giants exist in a perpetual stasis, and I felt the piece should be a snapshot of a situation rather than something which evolved dynamically.
"The canto opens with a blast on an impossibly loud horn belonging to the first giant, Nimrod; the piece imagines entering the scene the instant after the horn has sounded, leaving only its echoes.
"The sound material is a recording of the only words spoken by any of the giants: ‘Raphel may amech zabi almi’, and the processed sounds of a trumpet."
Part of the Inferno project to imagine and compose the sounds of Dante’s Hell, marking the 700th anniversary of The Divine Comedy. To find out more, visit http://www.citiesandmemory.com/inferno