Deambulatory of His Holiness

Deambulatory of his Holiness is an example of musical ekphrasis. Musical ekphrasis describes when one artform remediates another and rearticulates its aesthetic content in new forms. This is part of a musical trend from the past 100 years that helps characterise music's relationship predominantly with poetry, novels and painting. This piece of music contributes to and extends this practice by drawing on a more contemporary artform, the video game, and in particular musical responds to the way that video games present religious themes. The title of the work comes from the video game, 'Blasphemous'. The work is written for one player of toy piano and piano simultaneously where the toy piano presents heavenly sonorities against the darker sounding piano.