Hatching Aliens (Flute and Piano)

Hatching Aliens (Flute and Piano) by Ian Clarke (b. 1964), Published by IC  Music, written in 2008, Published in 2010.   Hatching Aliens is a journey of the imagination. It is not modelled on any particular previous work either by myself or other composers. However, its primal explorations perhaps have some echoes of the feelings of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring along with hints of darkness of the film "Alien", whilst also seeking some resolutions, dialogue and empathies in, and with, the unknown. As with other works it has an existential dimension; certainly it reaches into origins, corners and twists of reality with, for example, the quarter-tones being used partly as a metaphor for peering inbetween. Our world can be curiously alien, frightening and strangely beautiful. Hatching Aliens themselves would presumably be fascinating, alluring and earth shatteringly scary all at once .... what would we learn about ourselves? The opening section that begins inside the flute is the seed of th