Locust. The beauty of destruction.

A piece for string quartet, written during the ISA 2015 in Muerzzuschlag, Austria, revised in 2017.

Locust. The beauty of destruction. is a piece of infinite time. By playing with different ways of organizing time, algorithms and different proportion parameters, I have created an evenly unpredictable sound mass, therefore making "movement" and "motion" (glissando and crescendo - diminuendo) as the priority. Because of this fluidity, the actual pitches of sounds become secondary. Locusts have been the bringers of plagues for all of our history - they are mentioned by the ancient Egyptians, the Bible and the Koran alike. Because of their insatiable appetites, humans have emigrated to more distant parts of the world. Due to the intense growth of plants after the end of the drought season, serotonin in the brains of locusts begins a wave of huge change: they start to multiply and migrate when their numbers are large enough. Their larvae grow to full adulthood very rapidly. Both the grown locusts and their larvae are on the constant move, eating nearly everything that gets in their path.