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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.'
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Joseph Bates · Phasmid
All photographs by Ilme Vysniauskaite
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      • Two Animals
      • Nocturne
      • Lain Lines
      • Us Alone
      • A Noise So Loud
    • Solo >
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      • Odd Coils
      • Sparrow
      • Street Through A Window
      • Two Animals
      • Flim Flam
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      • The Hazelnut
      • Some Parts of Us
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