Soliloquy XVII or Scymboals

4 actors, 4 dancers and 4 computer-musicians and an indeterminate ensemble of metal percussion, gamelan instruments and keyboards

Fifth piece of the cycle entitled No Face, Scymboals is a ritualized mahjong game in which the characters engage in an abstract debate on love. The word Scymboals is a portemanetau of symbols and cymbals: as symbols mark time, cymbals sound, the wheel of fortune turns round and round.

Handwritten sketches and drafts

to be found in the loose bundle of manuscripts and in the black cover logbook #1

Completion of the composition 1-XII-1999

Duration:

variable

Composed In:

1999

Dedicated to:

Parts:

For score and parts, please email <rc@robertcasteels.com>

First performance:

03.12.99 Studio Theatre LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore

First performed by:

LASALLE Gamelan Ensemble and LASALLE-SIA schools of music, dance and drama

Commissioned by:

Download Link:

Soliloquy_XVII_Casteels.pdf