2025 . . . synthesized sound montage . . . 7 minutes
Electronic sounds from previous ANGELS pieces (The Fourth Angel, Angels of Bright Splendor) make layered counterpoint for a dark, unearthly montage. Music from another piece, String Theory, originally imagining spinning subatomic energy, provides an ironically human voice, both frantic, engulfed in the threatening sound environment, and soaring hopefully above it.
Global warming is already devastating the earth and all life on it. The Bible’s Revelation 16 tells of seven frightening angels:
“The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by the fierce heat.”
The other six angels and their bowls wrought plagues of painful sores, bloody seas, bloody rivers, darkness.
“Finally, the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice of doom came out of heaven, saying, ‘IT IS DONE!’ There were noises and thunderings and lightnings; a great earthquake. Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.”
The Final Angel
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Thomas Clark - composer / digital artist 