of her skin

(microtonal) Tuba (2017) | 12-13'

Piece 3 in the Exegesis Cycle | also Conflict as Artefact 2

Written for Jack Adler-McKean

Commissioned with funds from TONO

First performed in Berlin

24.10.17

Performance score published by

Edition Gravis

Score extract

of her Skin - A1 Score - Eric Skytterholm Egan (2017) copy.jpg

The piece uses an outline of a map of Nagasaki after the USAF nuclear bomb struck on the 9th August 1945, as a response to the devastating consequences of Western imperialism past and present.

you are a beautiful girl making love

out of her skin...

...you are the rising cloud

we wear...

Hiroshima | John Beynon