
CHAMBER (instrumental)
AFTER THE CRASH
Instrumentation:
2.1.1.0. 1.0.1.0 2 perc 1.0.1.1.1
Duration:
5'
First Performance:
15 February 2008, Duke's Hall, RAM, London. Pierre-André Valade, conductor
Score available here.
Programme note:
Standing by the edge of the M6 in Lancashire, waiting. Calm; not what I would have expected. The sequence of events circling my mind incessantly seems unreal, disconnected from me, as though from a half-remembered movie. The fluke of our unscathed survival is of too great a magnitude to grasp, so I watch the crash in my mind’s eye, again and again. A strange melancholy colours everything.
