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Work Overview
There are two texts used in the piece. The first is the Latin phrase 'sic transit gloria mundi' (thus passes the glory of the earth), and the other is a list of Latin, biological names for a number of species that are now 'critically endangered' in Australia.
Environmental thinker Glenn Albrecht, suggests that we don't yet have the vocabulary to express our 'psychoterric' states, and proposes, amongst other terms, 'solastalgia' for the desolate feeling associated with the chronic decline of a homescape. In light of this, thus passes… can be regarded a 'solastalgic lament.' The struggle to articulate is also apparent in the sound world of the piece. In addition to using a now dead language, syllables of this language are abstracted in different ways throughout, sometimes becoming pained vocalisations more than words, and creating incomplete, fractured utterances.
Work Details
Year: 2014
Duration: 6 min.
Subjects
- Has as subject/About: Environmental themes
Performances of this work
10 Sep 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room). Featuring The Song Company.
9 Sep 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room). Featuring The Song Company.
4 Sep 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Wollongong Art Gallery). Featuring The Song Company.
3 Sep 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest). Featuring The Song Company.
1 Sep 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Newcastle Conservatorium). Featuring The Song Company.
26 Aug 2016: at The Song Company: The Concord of Strangers (Melbourne Recital Centre). Featuring The Song Company.
6 Jul 2014: at Marking time: music for mid-winter (St James' Church (King Street)). Featuring Sydney Antiphony.
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