HER VERY NOISE, HER GUISE

for mezzo soprano, bass flute & violoncello
composition & text Pia Palme 2017

for NinaWhiteman & Trio Atem

This piece was commissioned by Trio Atem with funds from Arts Council England. The premiere took place on October 27th, 2017 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester. The work was further supported with a composition scholarship from the BKA Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Department of Music.

See also http://www.trio-atem.co.uk/index.htm

A performance at the University of Leeds can be watched here,
app. from minute 33:00 to 45:20
https://livestream.com/accounts/3260965/events/7863616/videos/165369041

 

Text excerpt

She

stets frei
paces up and down
in that haze
call’d reality
& zerschneidet mein Herz
or is it her mind?

She hears her skin
brushing
against
walls
body parts banging
against
fences
shards of bone
or is it her teeth?

banging against
banging against
banging against
banging against
banging against
banging against
banging against

barb’d skinfence
her fractured thoughts

She listens to thoughts exploding

violence as art
as she walks

 

 

First page of the score