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EVENT
HORIZON
EVENT HORIZON

Storm Prelude

for five harps

his is my second attempt
on writing a piece for
Tfive harps. By having
Drifting Away workshopped,
I was unsatisfied and frus-
trated with the result of it, Drifting Away is a piece
as the ideas that I had in my that would require a conduc-
mind did not come across as tor; due to the current world
I intended. Thus, I completely circumstances, mixing three
changed my approach while different student bubbles in
writing Storm Prelude. the same space would be

very unlikely. Furthermore,
when Drifting Away was
workshopped with the help of
a metronome, the result was
very different of what I in-
tended, as the piece sounded
disconnected, the complete
opposite of what I intended.
Thus, by taking away the time
signature and introducing
a stopwatch, aleatoric el-
ements as well as allowing
performers more freedom,
Storm Prelude is more con-
cise, resulting on a better
V. Motta - Drifting Away (sketch for first
rehersal) flow of the music.

In order to write Storm Prelude, I decided to revisit my
origins, Brazil. Different from Britain, Brazil is a land of very
contrasting weather, due to its tropical nature. The most
remarkable events to me are of the tropical thunderstorms.
The following videos contain some footage of how destruc-
tive Thunderstorms can be, especially in cities, often result-
ing on power cuts, trees being hit by lightning strikes and
falling onto cars, flooding and strong winds.