Elements: 4,000 water filled glasses
Hemispherical vessels
Bay laurel trees
Circumnavigating solar light
Mirrors
Aluminum sphere
Talc and Stones
Photographic flashes
Incandescent and natural light
Grand piano
23 member chorus
Composer Edmund Campion began playing the world premiere of a new solo piano work composed
especially for this occasion exactly at the moment of sunset in Rome (21:36). The music
consists of several highly virtuostic toccatas punctuated by fantasy interludes that
included the participation of The New Chamber Singers directed by Keith Griggs. The
audience was welcomed to experience the continuous work at any time during the 2 hour and
24 minute duration.
The musical score was accompanied by intermittent visual elements that punctuated and
animated the space. The piano, at the center, was concealed within a forest of vegetation,
surrounded by constellations of water filled vessels. A glow of light circumnavigated an
orbiting globe. Other occurrences, such as photo flashes were be triggered by the piano
and chorus .
The work is a meditation on the inevitable evolution of time. The work surged, swelled and
cycled. The acoustics of the Acquario Romano served to further extend the vaporous sound.
The choir defines moments in time within the piano’s continuum, acting to amplify to
magnify the syntax in what appears to be a randomness. Visual elements marked, divided,
punctuated and augmented the evolving sequences. Black stones falling into fine powder
accumulated at even intervals. The audience was in motion, observing the work from all
sides from the elliptical balcony above as well as from the corridor on the ground floor.
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