Apparitions of Malacandra by Joshua D. Smith

Inspiration for this work came from the space trilogy written by the English writer C. S. Lewis. In these novels, one of the human characters, named Ransom, makes contact with both the presiding angels of Venus and of Mars, respectively named Perelandra and Malacandra. During this meeting, the angels attempt three times to make themselves visible to Ransom. During these apparitions, Ransom witnesses a broad spectrum of images, which I have attempted to represent musically in this work.