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[carapace
23.7] (excerpt)
carapace
23.7 (complete)
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carapace 23.7
In a choral piece of mine based on a collection of texts
(Carapace*23) by (mostly) South African poets the image of a number of
people crossing at a traffic intersection provided an important point
of departure.
The individuals, like the poets, having interests as different as their
backgrounds, each existing in their own world (shell?), sometimes
interacting while passing or bumping into one another, sometimes just
finding themselves in the same place as an other (like it or not).
In the flute piece a rural layer has been superimposed over the urban
map of the choral piece, the flautist also bringing some extra's to the
party as she travels through this mixed landscape.
Sound excerpt from a recording of the première by Anne la Berge,
April 2000 at the Beethoven Room, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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