Tansy Davies - Stone Codes

Tansy Davies | Stone Codes | 2022 | 18'

Percussion concerto for Solo percussion and big ensemble

Link for the score | Composer's website

An AI roller-skater glides through cities, both ancient and modern 
Making acrobatic swerves, revealing new panoramas
New constellations: etched in rhythmical code
 
Kaleidoscopic twists open up vistas: revelations of zeros and ones
Manifest as deep, funky rhythms: Earth’s chthonic ode
 
Light-language held in stone like insects in amber
Now released in flamboyant flashes and flashbacks
 
A ritual of percussion; the world’s oldest instrument
A choreography of vibration: etched onto air...
 
Perma-frost to Perma-joy

- Tansy Davies