columbinus

This is the main theme for Des Moines Young Artists' Theatre's 2015 production of columbinus. Main instruments are synthesizers and drums. The piece is through-composed, and meant to give the listener a sense of growing, unbearable tension by using mounting dissonance and distortion. After the climax, the instruments and effects taper into a single high pitch, to represent the temporary tinnitus experienced when in the midst of gunfire and explosions.