Wounded Angel

Wounded Angel (1989)

The title is borrowed from that of a painting by the Finnish painter Hugo Simberg (1873-1917), in which two peasant children are depicted carrying an injured angel on a stretcher.

 

The music was conceived as a prelude to the picture, in which I attempt to explore the inexplicable: what happened just before the scene Simberg depicts? The end of the piece should be the start of the painting.

 

My Wounded Angel was realised at the studios of City University, London, and first performed – in an earlier version – by myself at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 1989. It is available in two recordings: by myself on NMC (Mixed), and by Stefan Östersjö on dB (Playtime)