We Know Where You Live
(2012) 8 min.
large ensemble, audience, video
Premiere
Bridges Hall of Music,
Pomona College
Claremont, CA
Performers
Celliola and friends:
Cynthia Fogg, viola; Tom Flaherty, cello; Rachel Huang and Emma Gies, violin; Jedrik Chao, viola; Ami Radunskaya, cello; Joti Rockwell and Jack Sanders guitar. William Appleton, Paul Koenig, Hannah Wayment-Steele; and Gibb Shreffler, audience instigators.
Notes
We Know Where You Live
In celebration of Pomona College's Mellon Elementals Arts grant, whose focus this year is the element “earth,” We Know Where You Live is held together with a video looking at the entire planet Earth, and with an electronic treatment of my choral piece, Lines of Reflection. The video begins with the first view of Earth from the surface of Mars, and follows with many other perspectives. The choral piece is a setting of a poem by the late Pomona English professor Richard Barnes, written for the late Pomona Music professor Richard Loucks. Words from the opening line “So beautiful, this earth. . .” are occasionally recognizable. A recording of the Pomona College Choir, conducted by Professor Donna M. Di Grazia in its 2001 premiere performance, is the source of all the electronic sounds in the piece. In addition to providing the pleasure of viewing the spectacular photographs that fellow humans have made available on public domain sites, and of revisiting several generations of Pomona faculty and students, We Know Where You Live is an excuse to enjoy making and listening to sounds together today.
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