Syrinx II is a semi-abstract video-art piece set to my reimagined score of Claude Debussy’s famous work for solo flute (Syrinx, 1913). I have reimagined Syrinx as a duet for two flutes and present a video-art work as a duel-line split screen that abstractly references the underlying story behind the original Syrinx, incidental music for the play Psyché by Gabriel Mourey. The original Syrinx was presented as the last melody that the god Pan played before his death, but still playing as seductively as ever – his love of beautiful nymphs has not gone out. This mingling of melancholy and sensuality is fascinating and ambiguous, and the video-art piece Syrinx II seeks to present these elements via two versions of self by delayed bifurcation via horizontal split-screens presenting active 3-dimensional calligraphy in pools of gold fish.
