At the Mountains of Madness, Symphonic poem for string orchestra

Strange triangular footprints in the rocks, an Aeon-spanning cave from which he recovers the desiccated bodies of several radially symmetric, tentacled, starfish-headed, half-vegetable, human-sized beings…

Written between February and March 1931, At the Mountains of Madness is a novel by American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The story is inspired by Lovecraft’s interest in the exploration of Antarctica, a continent that had not been fully explored in the 1930s. It recounts the events of a disastrous expedition to Antarctica in September 1930, and all that a group of explorers led by the narrator, Dr. William Dyer, found there.

This work explores the duality between the tangible and the intangible, the known and the unknown, the sturdiness sense of security and the sense of uncertainty. It has two very contrasting movements that are repeated throughout the work in one form or another, in different figures and ideas.

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