Loop Guts” is a slightly offbeat violin concerto, combining solo violin, electronics and orchestra. I honestly never thought of composing a violin concerto, a form with so many giants looking over your shoulder. And least of all in a Shitsome Lockdown in Germany. Writing Loop Guts together with Hannah Solveij was a glorious trippy trek… We smooshed violining with sampling, loops, electronic effects, singing, incanting nonsense syllables, all in a psychedelic supernova of our favourite musical genres from all eras. The sounds emerging from the sampler are violin sounds (even the ones which sound like drums). It was a protest against the ‘borture’ of this long German silence, I time during which I’ve been unable to return to Australia. We are so insanely grateful to the musicians and management of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker for working with us on this video.

INSTRUMENTATION

1.0.1.1 – 2.1.2.0 – timp – harp – solo vln – electronics – str.

DURATION

12 min