to the last syllable
Media: Music for four voices and tape
Duration: 15'20
Date: 1993
Commissioned by:
Sonic Arts Network
Audio Extract
File Size: 146kb Duration: 0'20
From a Live recording, London 1994,
with Fiona Baines, Lore Lixenberg,
Steven Austin, Martin Lindsay - voices.
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It's about time, and our perceptions of it. It's about history, stories. The text is an amalgam of literally hundreds of sources - 'stories' - whilst the tape employs recognisable sounds to tell a story of its own. All these threads are interleaved and overlaid into a rich and complex narrative tapestry. The multiple stories, seen as illustrations, articulations, of the passing of time, reflect time as a multi-dimensional phenomenon of probabilities, possibilities and impossibilities, flowing at different speeds for different people in different places and situations.
Additional
Information
- Commissioned by Sonic Arts Network.
- Performed on
South Bank, then toured nationwide.
- Broadcast on
Radio 3.
- Selected by
the BBC for presentation at the International Rostrum on ElectroAcoustic
Music, 1994.
- Revised version
(1997) performed by Electric Phoenix at IRCAM and by Singcircle at
the Dartington International Summer School in 1997.
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