MUSIC
Fescennine's "Punch This Day In the Face"
Music creator, Fescennine, speaks about their twelve minute piece, Punch This Day In the Face, and how it came about.
Even though I gave this song a harsh name, it really is one of the favorite things I’ve made.
Punch This Day In the Face was created for a dance work for a pre-professional University level dance company in the U.S.A. It a large cast piece, I want to say there were 12-14 dancers in the piece.
From nothing came something.
Punch This Day In the Face was almost lost. All of the files on my computer got deleted including my music files. For two years I thought this piece was gone forever, but one day I remembered that I had sent it to a colleague via email. It was still there!
At the time I was working on this piece, I was living in an old small house, the kind of house where everything seemed to keep getting worse. The living room and kitchen were open to each other and the big kitchen light developed a consistent flicker that neither myself nor my partner at the time had the ability to fix. My worktable was in this space. When Punch This Day In the Face was performed for the first time, as I was watching the dancers, the lighting design and listening to the music, I realised the rhythm of the pulsing tone was the same tempo as that flickering light.
