Descent by Joel Cathcart
"In a flash of vision he understood how other feet would cut their track arrowstraight towards the city, understood how the tower was laying a hand on the whole landscape, altering it, dominating it, enforcing a pattern that reached wherever the tower could be seen, by sheer force of its being there". William Golding
Descent is an interdisciplinary project, combining a forty-five minute song cycle with a large mixed-media sculpture. It was premiered in the Queens Film Theatre, Belfast, on September 4th 2009.
Descent's multiple narrative trajectories navigate the intersections of architecture, society, language and memory, taking as their thematic catalyst the Old Testament story of the city and tower of Babel.
Tracklist
| 1. | Zenith (A Flock of Windows) | 4:28 |
| 2. | Hopeful Young Keyholders | 3:18 |
| 3. | Hubris | 7:58 |
| 4. | Mother Tongue | 4:48 |
| 5. | Black Sunburn Riot Mind (Thousands of Splinters) | 0:46 |
| 6. | Glossolalia | 4:35 |
| 7. | Shells | 8:14 |
| 8. | Mute Stampede | 3:56 |
| 9. | Poetics of Defeat | 7:56 |
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Joel Cathcart is a composer, songwriter and visual artist.
He specializes in intimate live performances in unusual locations.
His latest album, 'Flotsam', is a collection of post-apocalyptic puzzles whose hybrid ensemble sound signals the creation of new listening spaces amid flooded ruins and overgrown motorways...