Enscripted


Instrumentation:

Percussion solo for snare drum and hi-hat, and audio-visual accompaniment


Duration: 12’


World Premiere: November 24 2021 (Melbourne, Australia)


The rhythm of speech is as vibrant, nuanced, and metrical as music itself, but commonplace as it is, it goes largely unnoticed. Enscripted uncovers the hidden metre and invisible groove that underpins speech by transcribing the rhythm of animated children’s films. Monologues and dialogues taken out of their original context have been spliced together, to create a transient narrative and showcase the rhythmic groove that is hidden within the words.

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