Phasmid (2022)
Details
Description: Solo violin
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation: Vn.
Commission: Written for Jeanne-Marie Conquer as part of the University of York's collaboration with Ensemble Intercontemporain.
First performance: To be performed at the University of York, 22nd November 2022, by Jeanne-Marie Conquer.
Score link
Recording: Soundcloud
Programme Note
A phasmid is a creature from the order of insects that includes sitck insects, but here it refers to the Insulidian Phasmid, a fictional creature from Disco Elysium, ZA/UM's elegaic 2019 masterpiece. At the game's climax, the giant insect emerges from the reeds, stridulating while it converses with you. Its chirrupping is described as sounding 'like a reel-to-reel tape machine spinning after the tape breaks', creating sounds 'that swarm around you head like swallows. Like laughter. A sort of happiness.'
Description: Solo violin
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation: Vn.
Commission: Written for Jeanne-Marie Conquer as part of the University of York's collaboration with Ensemble Intercontemporain.
First performance: To be performed at the University of York, 22nd November 2022, by Jeanne-Marie Conquer.
Score link
Recording: Soundcloud
Programme Note
A phasmid is a creature from the order of insects that includes sitck insects, but here it refers to the Insulidian Phasmid, a fictional creature from Disco Elysium, ZA/UM's elegaic 2019 masterpiece. At the game's climax, the giant insect emerges from the reeds, stridulating while it converses with you. Its chirrupping is described as sounding 'like a reel-to-reel tape machine spinning after the tape breaks', creating sounds 'that swarm around you head like swallows. Like laughter. A sort of happiness.'
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