Another indispensable series, Simon. As things turned out, my listening to this piece coincided with my just having watched (or perhaps “subjected myself to” would be more apt) the notorious Cold War-era BBC docudrama Threads, another artwork whose legendarily unrelenting bleakness demands a response from its audience. That film, of course, largely eschews music in favour of surely some of the most devastatingly effective sound design ever committed to tape, so the Tulve ended up being its score in retrospect. I don’t think you/I could have picked a better candidate for that role.
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Another indispensable series, Simon. As things turned out, my listening to this piece coincided with my just having watched (or perhaps “subjected myself to” would be more apt) the notorious Cold War-era BBC docudrama Threads, another artwork whose legendarily unrelenting bleakness demands a response from its audience. That film, of course, largely eschews music in favour of surely some of the most devastatingly effective sound design ever committed to tape, so the Tulve ended up being its score in retrospect. I don’t think you/I could have picked a better candidate for that role.