Duet with the summer in Santarcangelo

This piece is a duet between the summer song of the cicadas on a hot afternoon in Santarcangelo, and an unusual miniature orchestra of brass, strings and synthesisers. The long, sometimes juddering pulses of bass, brass and strings signify the slow lengthening of a hot day, while the bubbling arpeggios are musical mirrors of the cicadas themselves. 

Cicadas in Santarcangelo reimagined by Cities and Memory. 

IMAGE: N.monte, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons