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Trio
2021
Bass Flute
Soprano
Strings, bowed
Viola
Voices
Winds
- Program Notes
- Spell 76 is from Songs from Vessels: Spellbook in the House of Hearts which is a collection of songs from my VR micro-opera cycle Vessels. Each song is a kind of evocative painting, intertwining technology with the sensual, the poetic, and the eerie. Spell 76 evokes a pen cascading a river of ink representing the flow of ideas; granular sampling pulls ideas from the beginning in a current flowing through the end, pulling fragmented memories of the instrumental timbres into the present and stirring them into both real and synthetic water sounds. This emphasizes the friction of writing as a creative process that stems the tide of the artist’s ideas into a crystalline entity- an imperfect and beautiful distillation represented by the frozen timbres of the voice, flute, and viola.
- Recording Notes
- Soprano, Júlia Coelho Bass Flute, Anne Dearth Clarinet, Brooke Miller