The piece is inspired by Wagner's leitmotifs to convey the experience of "love" over life. How at first it seems idealistic and sweet, but as we go through heartbreak and loss, it slowly shows its dark underbelly.

The Underbelly of Love

This piece revolves around the battling between "metal" and "human" sides through the sampling of various cello and vocal recordings along with electronic synthesis manipulation. It swells a lot to quite chaotic drops to convey the internal warfare between the contrasting sides.

With Our Iron Teeth

The piece creates a narrative through the exploration of Messian's Modes 1 and 2, and developing further as the score progresses.

Largo

In collaboration with the ECU film screen academy, I wrote and produced tracks for the short film, TRAPPED. A drama-comedy centred around the beginnings of COVID affecting what we once considered normal life, Sienna and her mother Rory are forced to face conflicts with each other and within themselves.

Arielle Savory