Details:

Duration: 13 min
Instrumentation: amplified soprano and 2 channel fixed media
Premiere: Premiered on March 3, 2013 at the Hot Air Music Festival in San Francisco, CA by Jill Morgan Brenner
Commission Info: Written for the Jill Morgan Brenner

Program Notes:

hesheyoumeus, a work for amplified soprano and electronics, is an exploration, both literally and figuratively, of the interconnectivity of love and creativity. Particularly, what happens when your identity is wrapped up in these two concepts and they begin to simultaneously fall apart. In the first two movements, the singer begins to conflate words until they lose their definition. (mvt. i love/voice, mvt. ii he/she). As each movement develops we lose sense of what words the singer is singing and are left only with the vowels. In the final movement, we hear the background story, but even this breaks down in the climax where we are left only with the word (or vowel?) “i” as the singer loses herself in the cascading waves of electronic sound.

The electronics themselves are also built around the idea of “lost identity” as well. The sounds are developed by taking small fragments of popular songs and heavily manipulating them with various digital filters and effects. This results in sounds that relate to the popular music of our time whilst taking on a new identity.

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