Alien Altar
Percussion7 min2024Available for regional premiere
Technical level 1 of 7coordination
- One rehearsal
- Suitable for music schools
The initial inspiration for 'Alien Altar' came from a desire to write a piece that could feel at once distant and remote, yet intimate and close. It is perhaps too easy a metaphor, but the far reaches of deepest space have always represented to me an ultimate expanse, the final threshold of perceptibility where knowledge breaks down into incomprehension. 'Alien Altar' is a paean to that idea at the edge of our imagination, seeing it as something nearly holy in its profound distance and unreachability. 'Alien Altar' was written for Sandbox Percussion.
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