sexual signs for solo violin
(this and this and this)
(2018-2020)
(amplified solo violin, amplified string trio, pre-recorded soundtrack)
35 minutes
view score here
Harry Gorski-Brown by Rufus Isabel Elliot
1. PASS
i. introduction
ii. the beginning of the story, and
iii. some more of the story
iv. a bargain struck
v. plateau
vi. impassive hills
vii. meltwater
viii. finally
ix. a track
This piece began as an exploration of coldness and frigidity, of stories and bodies that
are totally closed to you.
only pass
that north
No.
Please, stop
IF YOU GET BACK IN YOUR CAR and
Will you
If I
once
and DRIVE BACK DOWN THE MOUNTAIN
texted meters
melted cold
water to wash in
days pass
sky and air
wanted to distant
him
arched myself
spread I come
the I hard-on then
on kissed pass
poured that bare.
(RE)
2. Tillage [without violence]
the day
the mountain
the winter’s near
those whom Nature hath not made
nothing, sweet boy
both sea and land
rain
and wind
or night
or none
or the sea
or if they sing
or call it winter
or being wreck’d
or seasons’ quality
[say no]
nor stone
nor earth
nor boundless sea
nor gates of steel so strong
but sad mortality
of hand
of foot
of lips
gathered
shake
hold out
kissing
gilding pale streams
loving parts
shifting change
[say no]
how with this rage
how like a winter
like the ocean be
like to thee
from me far off
from limits far remote
what freezings have I felt
what strong hand can hold
against the cold
against the watchful siege
where breath most breathes
where my body is
winter’s ragged hand
will hold me
hold out
upon your soundless deep
no stronger than a flower
no shape so true
my body is the frame
which parts the shore
(WS + RE)
3. a piece of horizon has been arching ur back
-
that the whole world is contained in a grain of sand
-
trying to smooth your body out so that you can become underwater in a shallow stream, in what used to be the deepest part of the river, in the only water in Fisherfield, which is melting off the snowfield of the Maiden. Flat, high summer.
-
heavy / light; coda (long and free)
we washed in rivers
and smelled like shady river banks
and dark red peaty water.
(RE)
