Soliloquy XVII or Scymboals
Love debate for actors’ quartet, dancers’ quartet, computer-musicians’ quartet and indeterminate ensemble of metal percussion, gamelan instruments and keyboards
- Duration: variable
- Studio Theatre LASALLE-SIA (Singapore)
- Composed in 1999
- First performance: 03.12.99 LASALLE Gamelan Ensemble and LASALLE-SIA schools of music, dance and drama Studio Theatre LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore)
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Programme notes:
Fourth piece of the cycle entitled ‘No face’, Scymb oals is a ritualized mahjong game in which the characters engage in an abstract debate on love. As symbols mark time, cymbals sound, the wheel of fortune turns round and round.