Dyad 1909 (In The Spirit Of Diaghilev) - 2009

A starting point, for Dyad, has been Shackleton's Nimrod expedition to the South Pole, in 1909, the year that the Ballet Russes was formed.

I want to convey in this piece this sense of survival, this desperation, whether that will be about surfaces that are hard to climb, or about not being able to be on your own - the psychological nature of being in extreme situations. It should be an alien juxtaposition of memory and hallucination.

In sound, we're building a really natural sound source through the music: you hear extreme wind or ice break, or the sound of silence, being inside your own head - these kind of sound pictures can be very evocative. We're also going to have this element in the set - I'm interested in monolithic images that dwarf the body in some way, to give a sense of landscape's impending doom. But for this to be balanced with the surreal - almost a fantasy strangeness.