horribile dictu (2007)
(for voices, strings and trombones)

horribile dictu utilizes texts from various horror films in which people are trapped in a room and can only escape by solving a certain puzzle or killing the other prisoners.

In this prison they are watched by their captor and continually reminded of the rules of his game.

The victims speak of their despair, their captivity, the constriction, hope of deliverance,… wherein the room is experienced and described as something extremely threatening.

This type of spatial sensibility led me to compose a piece for a room.