Stonemired – 3. Sleep Flare

Written as a companion to a 24' silent film by director Rouzbeh Rashidi, as part of Wilderness Notes, a collaborative project between Kirkos Ensemble and Experimental Film Society.

Like the accompanying film, Stonemired is not linear but abstract and dreamlike, as if wandering through rooms of the subconscious with starkly contrasting colours, images and emotions that are potent yet intangible.

Its harmonies are derived from the sonified atomic spectra of 5 chemical elements: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorous and oxygen. These sonic colours range from frosty anxiety to triadic warmth, alternately appearing in distorted, intermingled and pure elemental forms.