In Sunlight II:
September Song
Media:
Music for soprano, tape and live electronics
Duration: 9'05
Date: 1992
Written for: Steve Halfyard.
Audio Extract
File Size: 81kb Duration: 0'11
Studio recording, Birmingham 1992,
with Steve Halfyard, voice.
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Concerning
a fleeting feeling of nostalgia that is at the same time overpowering
and completely indefinable... Text was assembled from minute fragments
taken from a variety of sources, ranging from poetry to newspaper clippings.
These fragments are never delivered in a direct manner, but are always
veiled in some way, their meaning just out of reach. The singer is at
her most audible in wordless or phonetically distorted sections; where
whole words are employed, they are usually obscured. The tape is also
assembled from minute fragments; tiny snippets of evocative 'found objects'.
These sounds all have some sonic relationship to the voice, and grow
out of, and recede back into, the vocal sounds, just as the momentary
flashes of memory they represent surface from, and submerge back into,
the subconscious.
The intention behind the piece was to reflect the mysterious and illogical
nature of the subconscious, and in particular the strange selective
workings of the memory.in sunlight
Additional
Information
- Written for soprano
Steve Halfyard, who features on the studio recording heard here
SPNM shortlisted.
- Prize-winner
in the Concours Internationale at Bourges (1993, Résidence
category).
- Performed at
1993 International Computer Music Conference and broadcast on Japanese
Radio.
- Performed at
the South Bank centre by Fiona Baines and broadcast on Radio 3 (1993).
- Released on a
Jasrac CD.
- Released on an
NMC/ Sonic Arts Network CD (1996).
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