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Steel II

Description: Recording of Andy Birtwistle's Steel II. This work celebrates and mourns the failure of the Modernist dream represented by poet, Geoffrey Bridson's, 1937 broadcast: "Steel: An Industrial Symphony". It also captures the sound of an optimistic, heroic Modernist in the 21st century and how the new century would sound in contrast to the last.
Date: 2000
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Birtwistle, Andy

Dreampaths, A Walk Through Ezra Pound's Canto 90

Description: Recording of JoAnn Kuchera-Morin's A Walk Through Ezra Pound's Canto 90. This is a single movement work for soprano solo, two sopranos, two altos, and computer generated tape. In the text of the Canto, Pound incorporates Latin, English, Chinese and Greek, in order to describe the visual imagery of the poem which begins with a quote from Richard of St Victor. The computer-generated portion of the work is composed of both synthesized sounds and sampled, processed sounds from a collection of Chine… more
Date: 1989
Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Kuchera-Morin, JoAnn, 1953-
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