Focus

Commissioned by FLYDLPHN. Ritual traditions from ancient Maya and Egyptian civilisations reimagined through American Expressionist poetry — a dialogue between ceremonial practice and contemporary artistic consciousness.

Year: 2025
Category: Electroacoustic
Instrumentation: Sextet and fixed media
Duration: 7:34

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Focus reimagines and reinterprets ritual traditions from ancient Maya and Egyptian civilisations, blending them with modern sensibilities to create a hybridised sonic landscape. The work draws particularly on American Expressionist poetry, opening a dialogue between ancient ceremonial practices and contemporary artistic consciousness.

Written for sextet and fixed media, commissioned by FLYDLPHN Ensemble.

01 Electroacoustic A Mechanics of Almost IV Aerolith An air-column instrument beside a resonating metal surface: bass-clarinet breath and multiphonics exchanged with a bowed cymbal's slowly transforming partials.

02 Electroacoustic A Mechanics of Almost II Afterglare The zurna's penetrating upper spectrum treated as a physical condition: sustained tones extended, upper partials exposed and separated until the instrument's apparent singularity fragments.

03 Electroacoustic A Mechanics of Almost I Anaculaton Timpani reduced to impact → membrane → resonance → decay, then interfered with: attacks activate virtual resonating bodies beyond the instrument's scale, alongside wind, tunnels, machinery and distant environmental resonance.

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