Olga Neuwirth, The Long Rain (2000)

Excerpt from the music to a film by Michael Kreihsl, based on a story by science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. The story is about four space ship pilots stranded on a planet hostile to life. It is raining incessantly, a circumstance which gradually crushes them Since the earliest days of her meteoric career, Neuwirth has been an “angry young woman“ of new music, for whom, as she herself said in her address, “the meaning of music can’t be a matter of soothing people.“ Rather, “I would like my listeners to