Monuments
Duration: ~6 min
Instrumentation: Symphony Orchestra 2,2,2,2 4,2,3,0 2 perc. 2 timp.
Year: 2017
Conceptually based off of the 19th century poem 'Ozymandias' by Percy Blysshe Shelley, this composition is one piece out of a set of three that I composed around the poem’s many themes.
Building on the central theme of the poem, which explores the idea that all empires and their leaders inevitably decline despite their pretensions to greatness, I attempt to examine the concepts of monarchical/colonial musical deconstruction, fragmentation, juxtaposition, and evolution, and attempt to create the psychoacoustic elements needed for these abstract concepts to register with listeners.