from poison, for any instrument and six audio playback devices

The soloist performs a set of tasks that involve moving and starting six audio tracks placed around the audience while performing music based on the metal band Poison the Well's ironic love ballad, Horns and Tails. An offstage pianist plays and the performer recites a series of text - beginning as an inaudible mumble and ending as screams of desperation from offstage.

written for Daniel Heagney and Anne Rainwater Jan 2010