'Silent Spring' is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson, published in 1962. The book details the devastating effects of pesticides on plant, animal and human life, asking the reader to imagine a future silent spring when our indiscriminate use of chemicals on the land has finally extinguished life. This book is the immediate inspiration for this piece of music, but I think also the silent spring I have spent this year with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome rendering my life still with illness, and the spring we have all had in Lockdown against the global pandemic, both find an echo in the music.
This is the first new composition I have posted for a while as I have been ill, recently I have rather been posting edits of music written in the past. That I am composing again is hopeful. I believe hope is always present even if not always seen, I believe this because of the resurrection. Sometimes hope is seen to be with us from the outset, sometimes on the way, sometimes at the end, in this Lament for a Silent Spring hope is present even if not always heard.
The violin is electronically generated.
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