Extreme Unction

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Half notated, half improvised, Hatzis's Extreme Unction is a work that is inspired by an imaginary glimpse of our afterlife and our instinctive struggle to cling on to the things w e know. The orchestration for the strings includes semiotically-rich timbres, such as violet gesturing, microtonally tuned overtone spectra, an ever-present heartbeat-like sound in the lower strings and distant echoes of Doppler effects reminiscent of passing ambulances. All these effects notwithstanding, the creative spotlight always remains focused on the bass clarinet and its wide sonic and dramatic pallet. Show more