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        • Bent Lorentzen

        • The Bottomless Pit (1972)

        • Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
        • Tape
        • 24 min

        Programme Note

        With its recorded score consisting almost entirely of musique concrète, this work is a modern version of excerpts from The Book of Revelations, parts of which have an uncanny relevance to some of the most serious problems of our time. There are references to fire devouring the earth and burning mountains poisoning the living creatures in the sea. Smoke rises from the bottomless pit darkening the sun and air and locust-like beings emerge from the opening ready for war. The composition is in seven sections, of which the first four represent the destruction of the air, seas, mountains and sun. The middle and central section is a colossal wail of despair while the locust-people wreak total devastation. The two final sections depict the rainbow and represent a relieved but powerless hope for a better future.