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The Ballet of Koré and Demeter

from From the Silent Earth by Bere Farno

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The scenario is
Act 1 - Descent
Scene 1 (00:00.0) - Hades arrives
Scene 2 (01:05.5) - Koré panicking
Scene 3 (02:04.2) - Hades & Koré frozen in moment of abduction
Scene 4 (03:00.0) - Hades again, circling around Koré
Scene 5 (03:58.3) - Koré on chariot, strewing flowers
Act 2 - Search
Scene 1 (05:00.0) - Demeter dance - panic
Scene 2 (11:05.4) - Demeter dance - bringing winter
Scene 3 (15:42.4) - Hades and Koré in Underworld
Scene 4 (19:51.2) - Demeter angry - discovers the truth
Scene 5 (23:57.7) - Koré in the underworld, eating seeds
Scene 6 (25:20.6) - Demeter Talks to Zeus
Scene 7 (29:22.0) - Demeter claims Koré
Scene 8 (32:45.5) - Revelation of the pomegranate seeds - all four principals
Act 3 - Ascent
Scene 1 (33:32.7) - Pageant of return of Koré - Celebration - Mother & Daughter
Scene 2 (38:35.4) - Foreknowledge of return - Koré
Scene 3 (39:02.0) - Dance of Celebration - mother and daughter
Scene 4 (41:29.5) - Dance of Foreknowledge of return -Demeter
Scene 5 (42:43.7) - Dance of Celebration - Zeus
Scene 6 (46:42.6) - Foreknowledge of return - Zeus
Scene 7 (47:09.6) - Dance of Celebration - K Z &D
Scene 8 (48:44.7) - Dance of Foreknowledge of return - K Z &D
Scene 9 (49:36.1) - Dance of Foreknowledge of return - Hades
Scene 10 (50:15.2) - Dance of Celebration - Hades
Scene 11 (59:07.0) - Dance of Celebration - mother and daughter
Scene 12 (1:01:16.6) - Dance of Celebration - all four
Act 4 - Epilogue
Scene 1 (1:05:38.6) - Dance of Resolution of return and rebirth - all four
Scene 2 (1:08:23.4) - Dance of Resolution of return and rebirth - Koré

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from From the Silent Earth, released August 8, 1998

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Ivodne Galatea Nedlands, Australia

Principally playing original compositions of an ambient nature on the Hohner Guitaret as well as other thumb pianos/finger harps/lamellophones.
Interested in orchestration using field recordings, per the great John Cage's suggestions (1937).
The pieces are all pataphysical book reviews. They consist of musical essays on books of the same title that haven't been written, but should have.
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