Blood Vapour for flute quartet The fourth part of the Chthonic Flute Suite commissioned by Areon Flutes in 2012. This suite has two main inspirations: ideologically it draws guidance from the book The Dream and the Underworld (1979) by James Hillman (1926-2011) and musically it explores the textural possibilities of a flute ensemble within [...]
This dancer wears a scaly armadillo mask, plays a flute, and shakes a rattle. From a Late Classic Maya vase in the Chama style, found in the same region as the Great Hollow where Hunahpu and Xbalanque descended into the Xibalba. An excerpt from the Popul Vuh, the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life [...]
I wish that this were a pleasant, informative post about the power of interconnectedness and positive intentions. Of course, those things are great and have their place. In fact, those are probably more important topics than this, but I do have something to say on this topic right now. I do support--however much it goes against [...]
