Hindu Goddess Kali, from a bronze in the Calcutta Art Gallery.
Image date: ca. 1913.
Désir t'a appris l'inanité du désir
for ensemble. (2016)
Kali yearns constantly for sex. But the desire, that shapes her will and her path, doesn't bring her fulfilment, it slowly destroys her. Exhausted by this unyielding yearning she confesses to the sage, she's tired, tired of this life. He answers her that "desire has taught her, the inanity of desire."
Inspired by Marguerite Yourcenar's short story "Kali decapitée" (Contes Orientales).
Remix Ensemble, Peter Rundel, dir. November 2016, Casa da Música, Portugal.
Commissioned by Casa da Música, as Young Composer in Residence 2016.
Instrumentation: dbass-fl / picc, ob, bass-cl, bsn, hrn (f), trp (b), tbn, perc (sleigh bells, tambourin, gc, timp (low c)), 2 vln, vla, vlc, db.