These Violent Delights by John Tadlock

I woke up one morning with the opening textures of the piece swirling around in my head, mixed with a dark, mysterious, and somber feeling. The emotions were similar to those I get from Westworld, of which the title is derived. It is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: “These violent delights have violent ends.” Control becomes chaos. What once made sense is now a gnarled mess. These Violent Delights experiments with sections that start relatively simple and allow just enough time to feel the groove before becoming increasingly complex and even devolving into chaos. Suddenly, everything stops and begins again.