This is a new work that follows the idea I had a few posts back (Specimens iii) about animal ontology being like dark matter. The idea is that what we think we know about animals is based on attributes we can recognise in ourselves, related to food, reproduction, territory, tool use, society etc. But animal ontology may be unimaginably more expansive and unfamiliar than we think. I imagine a great mass of rotating dark [animal] matter, where occasionally a tiny fraction of its bulk becomes briefly visible. We catch a glimpse of it and mistakenly think we've accessed a large part of the whole.
For a number of reasons I really wanted to use Schubert here, not least because of the Kubrick connection — its a fragment of the piano trio Op 100, that features in Barry Lyndon.